[Metalab] monochrom: Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive / Vienna

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monochrom: Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive

At MUSA (Felderstraße 6-8, 1010 Vienna, Austria)
April 27, 2013; 2 PM-8 PM.

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We have the coffin. We just need you.

The people present will have an opportunity to be 
buried alive in a coffin for fifteen minutes.

As a framework program there will be lectures 
about the history of the science of determining 
death and the medical cultural history of "buried 
alive". People buried alive not only populate the 
horror stories of past centuries, but also 
countless reports in specialized medical 
literature. The theme of unintentional 
resurrection by grave robbers also runs through 
forensic protocols. Even in the 19th century it 
was said that every tenth person was buried 
alive. No wonder that the fear of this fate was 
immense and led - especially in the 
German-speaking region - to all kinds of 
precautions to avoid it. Various death test 
methods were developed, for instance. "Security 
coffins" with bell pulls and air hoses were 
patented; mortuaries were built, in which corpses 
were left for days to natural decay.

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At MUSA Vienna (Felderstraße 6-8, 1010 Vienna, Austria)
Lecture: April 27, 2013; 2 PM.
Start of premature burials: April 27, 2013; 3 PM.

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Want to reserve a slot? Email to office at monochrom.at
(We will create a lottery in case of overbooking.)

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http://www.monochrom.at/english