Posted on 06/01/2011 4:36:18 AM PDT by LibWhacker
A Russian man died after burying himself alive in a friend's garden in the eastern city of Blagoveshchensk in an endurance test that went wrong.
"According to his friend, the man, 35, wanted to test his endurance and insistently asked his friend to help him spend the night buried," said Alexei Lubinsky, a senior aide to the region's chief investigator.
The two men dug a hole in the garden and put inside an improvised coffin with holes for air pipes. The man also took a blanket, a bottle of water and a cell phone.
The victim's friend told investigators he covered the hole with planks and earth to a depth of around 20 centimetres and then went home, after receiving a phone call from his friend telling him he was fine. The next morning, he found his friend dead.
Lubinsky speculated that overnight rain could have blocked the air supply to the coffin.
"We know that the victim was a computer programmer and that he has a small child," Lubinsky said, adding that he probably was influenced by reading stories about self-burial on the internet.
In a bizarre trend, numerous Russian bloggers write of undergoing supervised self-burial and state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta even ran a feature on the practice.
Last summer a resident of the northern Vologda region died after he asked a friend to bury him in the forest in an attempt to lose his fear of death and was crushed by the earth, investigators said.
Those Russkies must be bored to death.
Guess he failed the test!
You know society is self-destructing when people are literally putting themselves into graves.
Darwin award for this idiot!
Buried overnight?
Nothing to it; once I buried myself for a whole month.
After thirty days, the wine cellar was empty, and I had to come out.
Man, the time just flew.
perhaps the blocked air hole also blocked what little radio access he had to his cell phone. I would suspect the cell coverage is not too good underground.
“Darwin award for this idiot!”
Alas, no, according the article, he already procreated.
The phony Darwin awards require that the person removes him/herself from the gene pool.
And his wife was probably hot too.
And his wife was probably hot too.
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CYNICAL ME says...
Has anyone checked out the relationship between the ‘friend’ that so readily assisted him and the guys wife?
Well, look at the bright side...at least the funeral plans are already taken care of!
He watched “Kill Bill” one too many times....
Why, oh why, do I keep thinking that alcohol may have been consumed before the decision to bury oneself? Hmmm?
“I would suspect the cell coverage is not too good underground.”
Nah.. The coverage was fine.
It’s just that the receiver on the other end was ‘dead’.
>> Blagoveshchensk <<
The author didn’t get the word. Illinois is now Emmanuelramm-stein.
“Ivan is strong as bull and smart as fencepost.”
I almost pinged the Gods, GRAVES & Glyphs list, but decided to not-ping instead...
Russian cemeteries... people are dying to get in.
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