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by Why Are You Reading My Name Mar 16, 2026 3 Comments 3 Links

#burial, #coffin, #death, #safetycoffin, #weird,

A coffin designed with a signaling mechanism that you can use if you are mistakenly buried alive.

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HADRIAN ION on March 16, 2026 at 6:30 am
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Idea: A safety coffin
Link: https://australian.museum/about/history/ex...
Safety coffins were popular in the 18th and 19th centuries due to a widespread fear of being buried alive.

Safety coffins
Link: https://australian.museum/about/

Fear of premature burial was widespread in 18th and 19th century Europe, leading to the invention of the safety coffin. Over thirty different designs were patented in Germany in the second half of the 19th century.

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Jimbo on March 16, 2025 at 12:58 pm
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Idea: A safety coffin
Link: https://patents.google.com/patent/DE199574...
Most designs of safety coffins utilize traditional signaling methods, but I found a Google Patent for a digital safety coffin.

DE19957408A1 - Coffin life monitoring system allows rapid exhumation of people mistakenly buried alive - Google Patents
Link: https://patents.google.com/paten

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RudeJude on March 16, 2025 at 9:06 am
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Idea: A safety coffin
Link: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/31/9075011/buri...
There are numerous designs for safety coffins.

Afraid of being buried alive? These coffins are for you.
Link: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/31/90

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health... Read more

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