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		n1b0m 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Story of Irish labourer buried alive in coffin for... You clearly didn’t read the article: “Soil entombed the coffin, save for a pipe for air and through which food and liquid could be lowered.”

Bender 50 days ago [–]

In that case they were not buried alive rather they were just in isolation. We do that to prisoners all the time all around the world often in much worse conditions including being chewed on by diseased rats and worse.

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