A Premature Burial with a Happy Ending
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In my books, being buried alive, in other words, premature burial, is one of the worst ways to go. It’s one big nightmare to think about. This doesn’t happen often these days, but it has happened many times before. More than you can think of. Here is the Angelo Hays story.
During ancient times, it was difficult to determine whether someone was really dead or not. Doctors would just hastily presume one dead and then bury them. There were little to no tests.
In 1937, Angelo Hays was a nineteen-year-old who was in love with his motorcycle, and safety wasn’t always at the top of his head. On September 1st, 1937, he had gone for a ride on his motorcycle and was speeding through the streets of St. Quentin de Chalais and had crashed into a brick wall headfirst. Fatal. He was presumed “dead” at the sight of the crash. But the accident caused his system to shut down temporarily which made him look lifeless. His face was so deformed that a closed casket was recommended, this means that his parents didn’t get to have one final look at their son before burial. Three days after the accident, he was six feet underground.
In a more decent way, let’s say he was “sleeping” for two days underground. But let me tell you this, this man survived.
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After an investigation to the case, they found that Hays had a life insurance policy. Hays’ father had taken out a $200,000 death policy two weeks before the crash. This left the investigators with confusion. Insurance investigators wanted a full autopsy, toxicology, and an investigators report. But there was absolutely nothing.
Angelo Hays was buried in hastiness.
With further investigation, it started to look less like an accident. Hays was dug up from the ground two days after the funeral because of an investigation directed by a local insurance company and to their absolute surprise, his body was still warm. His body put itself in a very deep coma and only needed a tiny bit of oxygen to preserve his system.
After surviving his accident AND being buried alive, he got proper medical care and made a full recovery. When he made his full recovery, he had this crazy idea of inventing a special coffin just in case another person gets hastily buried and for them to signify for help.
He invented a security coffin that could sustain human life. The coffin had a radio transmitter and a chemical toilet, it also reported to hold a “small oven, a refrigerator, and a hi-fi cassette player”. In 1974, he had demonstrated at a fair in Saint-Aulaye, France and survived thirty hours underground and another two days buried at the “Festival des Records et Inventions” in Aubigny, France in 1984. He became a small French celebrity after his inventions made several appearances on TV.
Hays lived a long, prosperous life before he died at ninety years old on January 12, 2008. This tragedy became a miracle within a week. This story is a reminder that a helmet is always required upon driving anything else other than a car. Its crazy to think that this led Angelo Hays to be buried alive.
Greetings! my name is Emily-Ann Petawabano. I am twenty years old, and this is currently my second year of college. I am a 9 hour drive from my homelands, and I miss it but I love it here. I absolutely love drinking coffee and eating ramen. I also love being in the comfort of my own home with my roommate who is also my first cousin. Going to the gym is also something I enjoy doing very much, late night workouts are my favourite.
