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How to get rid of the fear of being buried. Overcoming the fear of coffins

Nikolai Gogol: he was afraid of being buried alive

As you know, the name of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (March 20, 1809 - February 21, 1852) both during his life and after his death is associated with a lot of mysticism and fables. One of the most striking legends is that all his life the writer was afraid of being buried alive, and the appearance of “Viy” is supposedly an indirect confirmation of his fears.

The writer's fears were not invented by his descendants - they have documentary evidence. The thing is that from about 1839 he began to experience a progressive health disorder. While in Rome, Gogol fell ill with malaria, and, judging by the consequences, the disease affected the writer’s brain. He began to experience seizures and fainting at regular intervals, which is characteristic of malarial encephalitis. In 1845, Gogol wrote to his sister Lisa: “My body had reached the point of terrible coldness: neither day nor night I could do nothing to warm myself up. My face turned yellow all over, and my hands were swollen and blackened and were like ice, this frightened me. I’m afraid that at one point I’ll cool down completely and they’ll bury me alive without noticing that my heart is still beating.”

There were many rumors, however, not without foundation, about the writer’s “religious insanity,” although in the generally accepted understanding he was not a deeply religious person. And he was not an ascetic. The illness, and with it a general “head disorder,” pushed the writer to “unprogrammed” religious thoughts. And the new environment in which he found himself strengthened and supported them (according to historical documents, Gogol joined the “Martyrs of Hell” sect and gave all the money he earned to the sectarians).

Despite signs of depression and insanity, he found the strength to go to Jerusalem to the Holy Sepulcher in February 1848. However, the trip did not bring spiritual relief. He becomes withdrawn, strange in communication, capricious and unkempt in clothes. At the same time, he creates his strangest work, “Selected Places,” which begins with ominously mystical words: “Being in the full presence of memory and common sense, I express here my last will. I bequeath my body not to be buried until obvious signs of decomposition appear... I mention this because even during the illness itself, moments of vital numbness came upon me, my heart and pulse stopped beating...” These lines, combined with the terrible stories that followed after the opening of the writer’s grave during the reburial of his remains (about the allegedly damaged, scratched lining of the coffin lid, about the unnatural, sideways and seemingly crooked position of the writer’s skeleton), gave rise to terrible rumors that Gogol buried alive. That he woke up in a coffin, underground, and in desperation trying to get out, died from mortal fear and suffocation. This creepy mystical legend is not based on any historical evidence. But who knows how it really was...

In June 1931, the cemetery of the St. Daniel Monastery, where the writer was buried in 1852, was abolished. The ashes of Gogol and a number of other famous historical personalities, by personal order of Lazar Kaganovich, were transferred to the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent. During the reburial of Gogol's ashes, another mystical feature was revealed. The corpse did not turn over on its side and did not scratch the lining of the coffin, but, as Professor Vladimir Lidinu, who was present at the opening of the grave, writes in his memoirs “Transferring Gogol’s Ashes”: “...The grave was opened almost the whole day. It turned out to be at a much greater depth than ordinary burials, as if someone was deliberately trying to drag it into the bowels of the earth - the depth was such that a winch and ladders were not enough to reach the coffin... Having started to dig it out, we came across a brick crypt of unusual strength , but no bricked-up hole was found in it; Then they began to dig in a transverse direction in such a way that the excavation would be to the east, and only in the evening a side aisle of the crypt was discovered, through which the coffin was pushed into the main crypt. The work of opening the crypt took a long time. It was already dusk when the grave was finally opened. The top boards of the coffin were rotten, but the side boards with preserved foil, metal corners and handles, and partially surviving bluish-purple braiding were intact. There was no skull in the coffin! Gogol's remains began with the cervical vertebrae: the entire skeleton was enclosed in a well-preserved tobacco-colored frock coat; Even underwear with bone buttons survived under the frock coat; there were shoes on his feet... The shoes were with very high heels, approximately 4–5 centimeters, this gives absolute reason to assume that Gogol was short.”

When and under what circumstances Gogol's skull disappeared remains a mystery. One of the versions is expressed by the same Vladimir Lidin: in 1909, when during the installation of the monument to Gogol on Prechistensky Boulevard in Moscow, the restoration of Gogol’s grave was carried out, one of the most famous collectors in Moscow and Russia, Bakhrushin, who is also the founder of the Theater Museum, allegedly persuaded the monks of St. Danilov monastery for a lot of money to get Gogol’s skull for him, since, according to legend, it has magical powers. Whether this is true or not, history is silent.

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Many people sincerely believe that humanity is ruled only by fear, and the endless series of phobias is proof of this. But irrational fears associated with death have a special place in this case. One of them, quite common, is called taphephobia. In this case, the person is terrified of funeral rituals and everything that has to do with it. But most of all, the person suffering from this phobia fears being buried alive. Some scientists believe that it is taphephobia that is the basic basis of the human psyche. Medical and psychological literature traditionally includes other names for similar mental fears. For example, taphephobia feels close to claustrophobia, which means the fear of enclosed spaces, or to nyctophobia, which is the fear of the dark.

It is known that sixty percent of women and forty percent of men from time to time see deceased relatives in their dreams, and many of them have the idea that the fact of death could have been established erroneously. This is also facilitated by information that often appears in various media and popular scientific publications, where problems related to the objectivity of methods for recording a person’s death are discussed. Many television programs are devoted to this controversial topic, and opinions are always quite contradictory, so an individual prone to taphephobia is constantly thinking about various theories related to this issue.

Moreover, quite often one can come across an opinion, unfounded from a scientific point of view, which claims that at present there are no absolutely reliable procedures in technological terms that make it possible to reliably ascertain death. Of course, there are electroencephalographic methods for diagnosing death, as well as ultrasound and X-ray methods that study cerebral blood flow. But the peculiarity is that their implementation is technically complex, and they are not used when ascertaining the death of a person at home.

Psychologists believe that the occurrence of a phobia is explained by various situations experienced by a person in childhood, which in one way or another are related to death. Perhaps this is the loss of someone close, a family member. When a child, not understanding what death is and observing the grief reigning around, begins to fantasize about what will happen to the person after the coffin is lowered into the grave and buried. What if the person wakes up later, and what will happen to him? Having grown up and learned that there is such a thing as lethargic sleep, an impressionable and overly emotional person mentally tries on any situation for himself, and quite often becomes so imbued with the invented role that, ultimately, he begins to be afraid of his own thoughts and cannot get rid of them .

A persistent irrational fear haunts him, turning into pronounced taphephobia, when the patient is so frightened that he cannot bring himself to go to the funeral of well-known people, for example, one of his work colleagues, or even close friends. Knowing full well that such behavior will be regarded by others as disrespect for the family of the deceased, the taphephobe still, in most cases, cannot cope with his fear. He prefers to look ill-mannered and tactless in the eyes of other people rather than endure unbearable fear and demonstrate to everyone his inappropriate behavior in the event of a phobic attack.

The emergence of the disease is facilitated by many horror films in which, according to the plot, a person is buried alive and cannot get out, finding himself in a tragic situation. Doctors do not recommend that people with weak psyches get involved in such films, especially before bed. As a consolation, tapephobes accept the fact that the fear of being buried alive is quite common. Therefore, for the peace of mind of such people, special mechanisms and devices have been invented, which, according to their creators, signal the appearance of signs of life in those who are buried.

All cultures have special rituals that accompany the death of a person. As scientists have proven, such events are necessary so that loved ones can survive the stress associated with the loss of a loved one. The feelings evoked by these traditions and rituals reflect the attitude towards death of those who observe what is happening, being among the living, and invariably think that sooner or later they will have to go through something similar. Thinking in this way, a person suffering from taphephobia, first of all, is afraid of finding himself in a tight confined space from which there is no way out.

Signs of taphephobia are expressed in sudden general weakness, dizziness, and profuse sweating. The heart rhythm is disrupted and blood pressure may drop sharply. In turn, such violations often end in fainting. If a person is unable to overcome his unreasonable fear on his own, and constantly suffers from thoughts that he may fall asleep in a lethargic sleep and end up buried alive, then he should immediately contact an experienced psychotherapist or psychiatrist. Such fears destroy mental health, which leads to serious problems. Therefore, treatment is a necessity.

Yes, you got it right. Chopin's heart has been carefully preserved since his death in 1849. Before his death, he asked that his heart be cut out and buried in Poland, the country where he was born. The historical phrase uttered by the great man was: “Swear that you will force me to be cut open so that I will not be buried alive.”

Chopin suffered from a phobia of being buried alive. The great composer was far from the only famous person to suffer from such fear. In fact, taphephobia was quite common at the time.

George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he wanted his dead body to lie there for three days before being buried. “This way, those around him could be convinced that he was really dead,” writes Sarah Murray in her book “Coming Out.”

The writer Hans Christian Andersen and the founder of the famous prize, Alfred Nobel, also suffered from this fear and wanted their veins to be opened after they seemed to have passed away. This way, those around them could be convinced that they are really not alive.

Live burials have existed since biblical times. According to Kenneth W. Iserson, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona and author of Death to Dust, taphephobia was based on a historical reality that has deep roots.

"We've known that the fear of being buried alive has existed since biblical times," he says. At the time Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, it was customary to wrap bodies and bury them in caves. Then a few days later someone went to check if the people were alive. The reason why such a procedure was carried out was that such cases sometimes occurred.

“In cases where people were mistakenly buried alive, we cannot reliably judge what diseases they suffered from,” Iserson says. It is possible that in the 19th century, typhoid fever, which has a very slow progression, led to some premature burials. In general, it is very difficult to determine how famous figures died, judging only from historical records, since the understanding of diseases by people of past centuries differs significantly from how we regard them at the present time.

For a long period of time, instruments for determining organ function were inaccurate, and the only sure way to determine whether a person was dead or not was to leave the body on the surface for a while and see if it had rotted.

"Think about it," Easterson says. - How could people in the past determine that a person was dead? Nowadays this is not difficult, since we resort to the use of modern technologies, for example, electrocardiograms.”

Interestingly, there are many real cases where some citizens were buried alive even in the 20th century. A striking example is the shocking story of Essie Dunbar. The woman suffered from epilepsy, and in 1915 it became known that this resident of South Carolina had died. Her sister arrived at the burial site after the coffin had been lowered into the ground, and the gravediggers agreed to raise it again so that the relative could see the deceased one last time.

“The screws were unscrewed, the coffin lid opened, and the deceased sat down in her coffin and looked at her sister, smiling,” writes medical professor Ian Bondeson of Buried Alive. “The mourners, including my sister, thought it was a ghost and fled in fear.”

In Essie's case, it can be concluded that the woman probably suffered from attacks that caused her to lose consciousness. That's why people thought she was dead. After this strange incident, the woman lived for several more decades and died a natural death only in 1955.

Taphephobia reached its zenith during the Victorian era, when craftsmen began to profit from making "safety coffins". Some of them were basically above-ground graves with a hatch that the buried person could unscrew if he suddenly woke up. Some deceased people were attached to an overhead bell so that the person could ring from his coffin if he came to life.

Purchasing these elaborate coffins could be a chance to overcome the fear of being buried alive, but Iserson notes that there are no proven cases in which these devices have saved someone's life.

The fear of being buried alive began to fade in the 20th century when new burial practices emerged. After cremating the body or embalming it with formaldehyde, it could be stated with certainty that the person was dead.

But people still wake up in morgues, although this happens extremely rarely. In November 2014, morgue staff observed a 91-year-old Polish woman who began to show signs of life. Two similar cases occurred that same year: one in Kenya and one in Mississippi.

Chopin's story can be perceived as quite dramatic, given the time period in which it took place. But recent cases in morgues can be fully understood by readers.

Author of the article: Maria Barnikova (psychiatrist)

Taphophobia - fear of funerals, fear of being buried alive

09.12.2014

Maria Barnikova

Taphophobia is the fear of funerals and their paraphernalia, as well as the fear of being buried alive. This phobia is basic for a person and is based on the fear of death. This phobia is cross-cultural because... its mechanism is based on the deep foundations of the individual and does not depend on society. Symptoms Symptoms of taphophobia can vary. They have their own characteristics for each person. But […]

Taphophobia– fear of funerals and their paraphernalia, as well as fear of being buried alive. This phobia is basic for a person and is based on the fear of death.

This phobia is cross-cultural because... its mechanism is based on the deep foundations of the individual and does not depend on society.

Symptoms

Symptoms of taphophobia can vary. They have their own characteristics for each person. But it is worth highlighting those that appear most often:

Sleep disorders

This may include insomnia, nightmares, sleeping in an awkward position and other sleep-related problems. Let's look at them in more detail.

A person may be afraid to go to bed; he associates the horizontal position of the body with a coffin. In this regard, he may take uncomfortable sleeping positions (for example, sleep sitting, standing, or with his legs raised high), thus putting a psychological barrier between himself and the deceased.

The thought that he might not wake up haunts him, especially in the dark. He tries to surround himself with people; it seems to him that if there is a person nearby, he will be able to wake him up, stir him up, and save him from deep sleep. The presence of people nearby creates a feeling of safety, but does not relieve all the symptoms of a phobia.

Nightmares are usually directly related to the phobia. A man dreams that he is being buried alive. He can feel not only the lack of air, but also the boards under him, as well as the earth that is pouring onto the coffin. It is very difficult for a person to recover from such nightmares. Therefore, for a long time after such a dream, a feeling of anxiety, suffocation, palpitations and all-encompassing fear persists.

Obsessive actions

These can be conversations, notes, video recordings, audio recordings, diaries and other behavioral manifestations.

Shackled by the fear that he will be buried alive, the person constantly talks about how to make sure of his death. He can write suicide notes every time he goes to bed. It could also be video and audio messages to those who find him fast asleep. Such messages most often contain requests not to touch the body for several days (and sometimes even weeks); verify death through a consultation of doctors and under no circumstances allow an autopsy of the body.

Frequent visits to doctors, especially somnologists, is also a distinctive feature of people suffering from taphophobia. To exclude the possibility of lethargic sleep, people constantly check the characteristics of their brain activity during sleep.

Phases, changes and deviations from norms are studied in detail.

Physiological manifestations

A set of manifestations in the body is characteristic not only of taphophobia, but also of most other irrational fears. This list is extensive and personal. Manifestations depend on a person’s personality, his reaction to stress, and the strength of his nervous system.

The most common physiological problems are:
Sweating; poor appetite or vice versa – overeating; uncontrollable thoughts; aggressiveness; increased or decreased blood pressure; heartbeat; fainting; dyspnea; dizziness; “lump” in the throat; nausea; stool disorder; pain in the back and limbs; dry mouth; memory impairment.

Causes/occurrence

It is impossible to talk about the causes of taphophobia with a 100% guarantee. The topic of phobias and their occurrence has not been fully studied at the moment. Experts say that the likelihood of developing irrational fear in people with a rich imagination is much higher. In such people, taphophobia may appear after watching films, reading books, even from accidentally overhearing a snippet of conversation.

The causes of phobias include stress and constant nervous tension (it can be associated both with an objectively existing cause and with personality characteristics). Taphophobia can appear after a trauma, especially if it is associated with the death of a loved one or a person who was very significant.

If a person has a low threshold for responding to stress, the phobia develops rapidly and reaches destructive proportions in just a few days. It has been found that women suffer from phobias 2 times more often than men. However, regarding taphophobia the data are opposite, i.e. the stronger half of humanity is more susceptible to it. According to scientists, this is due to the fact that a woman is a continuator of the family and, therefore, sees a continuation of herself and her life in a child. Thanks to this, the fear of funerals and death recedes into the background.

The causes of taphophobia also include childhood experiences. If the child was unwanted, the likelihood of this type of phobia occurring is high. This is due to the fact that, while still in the womb, the little man was not completely sure that the light would appear. Those. faced the possibility of death every day. He retained these memories and carried them into adulthood, experiencing them as a phobia.

Treatment

The surest and most reliable way to overcome phobias is psychotherapy. The methods that a psychotherapist or psychologist will use will depend on the direction in which he works. This can be the method of free associations, desensitization and NLP. There are many approaches to solving this problem, they have different effectiveness, but they work.

If you notice signs of taphophobia in yourself or a loved one, contact a specialist as soon as possible.

To relieve an acute condition on your own, it is recommended:

take your mind off your thoughts with books, movies, music, sports, travel and relaxation.
find as much data as possible about your phobia. The information will be useful not only for understanding your illness, but also for rethinking and reevaluating yourself and your life.
minimize situations that lead to bright outbreaks of taphophobia (closed spaces, darkness, cold/heat, lack of oxygen, loud sounds, etc.)
get support from those who suffer from the same problem (this could be forums, websites and various groups dedicated to phobias).

The main thing is to remember that a phobia can be corrected, don’t think that you will suffer for the rest of your life!

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Reasons for the development of taphophobia

Taphophobia is characterized not just by the fear of the wooden product itself, but by a whole string of accompanying phobias. The cause of the development of taphophobia is most often thanatophobia (fear of death). This is inherent in almost every person, because everyone is afraid to die.

Fear of torment

In parallel with taphophobia, a person may suffer from nyctophobia (fear of the dark) and claustrophobia (fear of closed spaces). The causes of phobias most often lie in childhood fears. Observing the ceremonies and rituals associated with funerals, the child does not understand well the essence of what is happening, but the sight of crying relatives and the depressed atmosphere on a subconscious level instill in him the idea that everything that is happening is bad and scary.

Fear of death

Intimidation and prejudices associated with burying the body of the deceased play a role, which are clearly highlighted in cinema; information and photos can be found on the Internet. All this has a huge impact on the fragile child’s psyche.

Taphophobia can also develop at a conscious age due to suspiciousness or impressionability. The reason may be a strong shock from the loss of a loved one.

Fear of being buried alive

Special attention should be paid to such a manifestation of taphophobia as the fear of being buried alive. This is a common form of phobia, which they tried to cope with back in ancient times: they made special coffins with a second entrance or tied a rope to the deceased’s finger, and its other end was attached to a bell.

Our ancestors were afraid of being buried alive, since medicine was poorly developed, and often a dead person could not be distinguished from a living one.

Symptoms of taphophobia

In the presence of any paraphernalia associated with a funeral, a person experiences fear and panic. Symptoms can vary greatly; only the somatic manifestations of phobia, which have different intensities, remain unchanged. Somatic symptoms:

rapid heartbeat;
dizziness and darkening of the eyes;
nausea, upset stomach, diarrhea;
loss of consciousness from suffocation;
hyperthermia of the skin;
tremor of the limbs.

There are also atypical symptoms: insomnia, nightmares, loss of appetite and depression. Each of them greatly depletes the human nervous system, thereby aggravating the current situation.

A person who is afraid of being buried alive leaves notes to his family and friends asking them to put a phone in the coffin.

A tachophobe attending a funeral may lose consciousness

Methods to combat taphophobia

To get results from therapy, you need to clearly set a goal for yourself and seek advice from a psychotherapist. This specialist will be able not only to plan a course of treatment, but also to find the cause of taphophobia.

Psychotherapy

The fear of being buried alive, as well as the fear of the coffins themselves, can be overcome with the help of improved techniques. The therapist's goal is to obtain as much information as possible from the patient. All information is analyzed in detail to find the psychological “anchor” that cemented fear in the subconscious. The most successful methods are:

Neurolinguistic programming is the unobtrusive suggestion to the patient of the necessary tactics to combat a phobia. Specific words that are selected by the doctor are introduced into normal conversation. The result is recorded with some kind of marker: clicking a pen, tapping your fingers, etc. Later, when a person begins to feel the approaching panic, it is enough for him to recreate this sound. This calms you down and gives you the opportunity to switch to something else.
The cognitive method is the fight against fear by constantly confronting it. The patient is encouraged to watch videos on relevant topics, read stories, and visit cemeteries. This method is used only for adults with a mature psyche.

Simulators can be an effective way to combat the fear of being buried alive. The entertainment industry offers the bored public quests to escape from the coffin. The patient may have a loved one with them during this trial. This should not be done if, in addition to the phobia, the person suffers from problems with the cardiovascular system.

Self-medication

With minor manifestations of taphophobia, you can cope with them yourself. This method of dealing with a phobia is less effective and gives short-lived results, but it is very relevant if there is no opportunity to contact a specialist.

You need to find a hobby that will distract you from anxious thoughts. An excellent solution is playing sports or some kind of creativity. Experts also recommend avoiding films and books with depressing content, choosing fun and life-affirming topics.

Patients with taphophobia should give up alcohol and drugs. These substances have a destructive effect on a person’s psychophysical state and can lead to prolonged depression, which will only increase fear.

The support of loved ones is important. The feeling that a person is not alone makes him calmer and significantly reduces the risk of panic attacks.

Conclusion

Fear of coffins and other funeral paraphernalia, like the fear of death, is not an irrational phobia. The reasons are quite reasonable. It has been noticed that in countries where, for religious reasons, they believe in reincarnation, life after death, etc., the number of patients with thanatophobia and taphophobia is much smaller.

If a phobia affects the normal course of a person’s life and prevents him from enjoying life and enjoying it, then this is an alarming sign. It indicates the need for treatment of anxiety-phobic disorder and its symptoms.