{"id":10594,"date":"2012-05-29T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2012-05-03T04:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:09:40","slug":"george-washington-was-taphephobic-a-person-terrified-of-accidentally-being-buried-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/george-washington-was-taphephobic-a-person-terrified-of-accidentally-being-buried-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington was Taphephobic (A Person Terrified of Accidentally Being Buried Alive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/taphephobia-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10613\" title=\"taphephobia facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/taphephobia-facts.jpg\" alt=\"taphephobia facts\" width=\"559\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/taphephobia-facts.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/taphephobia-facts-340x487.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first president of the United States, George Washington, upon his death bed told his attendants &#8220;I am just going.\u00a0 Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.\u00a0 Do you understand?&#8221;\u00a0 He was terrified of accidentally being buried while he was still alive.<\/p>\n<p>Among other famous taphephobics was Frederic Chopin, who upon his death bed said &#8220;The earth is suffocating&#8230; swear to make them cut me open, so that I won\u2019t be buried alive.&#8221;\u00a0 Yet another taphephobe was Hans Christian Anderson who would always lay a card on his dresser before he went to sleep, even while traveling, that said &#8220;I am not really dead.&#8221;\u00a0 He also requested that his arteries be slashed before burial.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a taphephobe, but don&#8217;t want to be cremated, simply tell your loved ones to make sure to have your body embalmed.\u00a0 If you aren&#8217;t dead before the embalming, you will be after.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"taphephobia facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/the-fear-of-being-buried-alive-is-called-taphophobia\/\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first president of the United States, George Washington, upon his death bed told his attendants &#8220;I am just going.\u00a0 Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.\u00a0 Do you understand?&#8221;\u00a0 He was terrified of accidentally being buried while he was still alive. Among [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1623,2464,702,2463,1112,2559,2560],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-george-washington-facts","tag-know-it","tag-language-facts","tag-now-you-know","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-taphephobia","tag-taphephobic-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10614,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions\/10614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}