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To: Salvation; defconw

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”.


46 posted on 03/07/2015 9:58:11 AM PST by Grateful2God (Oh dear Jesus, Oh merciful Jesus, Oh Jesus, son of Mary, have mercy on me. Amen.)
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To: Grateful2God

That would freak me out. Imagine waking up in a coffin! ACK!


52 posted on 03/07/2015 12:44:52 PM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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