You are buried in a coffin 6ft deep, with no light or cell phone. There is only a small tube connected to the coffin from outside that allows you to breathe (edit: you can breathe with no difficulty). After 48 hours, you are dug up and given 1 million dollars. Do you do it?

Edit: No food and water, no diaper, and no contact with the outside world. Once buried, they leave for 48hr and come back to dig you up. The coffin is only wide enough for you to lay on your back (no rolling around), and the inside is wood and not particularly comfortable. The only items you’re allowed to bring with you are life sustaining medication (e.g. an asthma inhaler). No knocking yourself out with pills or anxiety meds. The money is a briefcase full of cash.

  • @Furbag
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    131 year ago

    Man, just trying to imagine it, I wouldn’t be able to do it. It’s one thing to be confined to a small space, but a small space where you can’t roll around? I’d need at least enough room to roll over or stretch out my limbs. Also, I’d have no concept of the passage of time, so it’s very likely that I would go insane in there within the span of 48 hours. Sure, you could try and sleep a bit, but after 8-10 hours of that you’d be wide awake and have no idea how much time went by, with 40+ more to go.

    I’m sure some people have probably done this for a lot less, though. I’m thinking of stowaways on cargo ships or airplanes who sealed themselves in a crate or something to get somewhere else, but I think in that case they at least had a little more space and hopefully a way to pass the time while voyaging.