12-15-00
It's not like I'm a huge watcher of soap operas, but I've noticed that a common plot device seems to be the whole "inadvertent burying of someone who is still alive" scenario.
My question is this: when the 'dead person' went to the funeral home to be enbalmed, why didn't the enbalmer notice that the body was still warm, breathing and very much alive?
Okay, maybe there are a lot of crooked funeral home personnel around and they knew the person wasn't really dead.
But why does the victim always wake up just as the funeral is over and the coffin is buried? And why does she manage to live for days or weeks when there is only a teensy amount of air in the coffin with her? And why is the victim always a woman?
David Blaine had to prepare for weeks prior to either of his weird burying stints, fasting and meditating, and he still had air and water piped in to keep him alive. But then I suppose that he's a man, living in the real world.
