[Salvation]

That’s a new story for me.

[defconw]

Well it would really suck, if you really weren't dead. But this is way back when they didn't know what we know now. :) I also believe it had something to do with the 3 days, that everyone waited for Jesus to resurrected. Of course this is just what I have heard in the past. The historians will probably arrive and blow holes in it. :)

[Grateful2God]

Before there were the medications and electronic means we have today, a person in a coma, catalepsy due to s brain disorder, in crisis during a fever, could be easily mistaken for dead. Not every family could afford embalming, which became more common after the Civil War, so a person either had ice around them where possible, or were buried when arrangements could be made. In the interim, a person who was not embalmed could awaken. Poe was subject to catalepsy, and had a dread fear of this happening, which he wrote of in “The Premature Burial”.