Oct 13, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
Do you wanna something weird about historic coffin tech? 👀 WHO ARE WE? Weird Tech is a Weird Tech Media production and a proud member of the iHeart Network. 🎙️ Hosts: Rae Johnston and Tegan Jones…
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So for most of human history, Rae, knowing that somebody had died was not as straightforward as it is now.
This is going to be about the little bells that you see when you're walking around graveyards, isn't it? Oh, okay.
And so if someone had a really weak pulse that you couldn't feel, maybe they were in a coma or just unconscious, you they might seem like they'd stop breathing for a while.
Like classic example, Romeo and Juliet, right? Is that the whole premise of like the tragedy at the end is that it would fake being dead.
But the thing was too is that, you know, at the time people knew that they could get it wrong.
Like that's why you see the great Monty Python and the Holy Grail, like bring out your dead.
And so, you know, in the 18th and 19th centuries, it actually became like a real fear that you might end up getting killed buried alive
it's still a fear for me today even though it's perfectly unreasonable that that could possibly happen right now maybe i don't know you're gonna ruin it
So for most of human history, Rae, knowing that somebody had died was not as straightforward as it is now.
This is going to be about the little bells that you see when you're walking around graveyards, isn't it? Oh, okay.
And so if someone had a really weak pulse that you couldn't feel, maybe they were in a coma or just unconscious, you they might seem like they'd stop breathing for a while.
Like classic example, Romeo and Juliet, right? Is that the whole premise of like the tragedy at the end is that it would fake being dead.
But the thing was too is that, you know, at the time people knew that they could get it wrong.
Like that's why you see the great Monty Python and the Holy Grail, like bring out your dead.
And so, you know, in the 18th and 19th centuries, it actually became like a real fear that you might end up getting killed buried alive
it's still a fear for me today even though it's perfectly unreasonable that that could possibly happen right now maybe i don't know you're gonna ruin it
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