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Show Many Persona Burled Alive "There are plenty of peoplo moldering under the sod," says a physician, "who were buried beforo life became extinct, but they were never made aware of the fact. Coffins nowadays are hermetically sealed, and there is not enough air In one of them to bring a person to life out of a trance. The lungs must have a certain amount of oxygen before the heart will begin 'to act, and one full inhalation would exhaust all of the oxygen in a modern casket, and tho lungs would, of course, bo unable to take another. All lliese stories of fearful sufferings endured by persons buried olive are false; there's nothing to them. "No doubt bodies are frequently interred in-terred while life is yet existent, but this would not be the caee if everybody l:new of a certain infallible and absolutely certain test of death. "All you have to do is to apply a match to any part of the supposed corpse. If life remains, however little, a blister will at once form." Chicago Herald. |