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Anyone with taphophobia should've avoided dying in 17th c. Poland.

> Taphophobia is an abnormal (psychopathological) phobia of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead.

I mean I don't think they care per se if they're actually dead?

That said, there were things like bells on wires as well for cases like that.

Apply common sense: The living have a phobia of being buried alive. And how are they going to ring a bell if they're restrained facedown? ...