(November 24, 2011 at 1:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: People in a coma are not dead. They breathe, they have a pulse, they piss, shit, and fart.
I really do think the ancients were smart enough to know the difference.
The custom of tying a string to the toe of a corpse, and the string to a bell, began because there were people that were buried alive, and the bell was to allow them to alert people in case this happened. This is also part of the explanation of three days, beyond the appeal of threes, they figured after three days you were surely dead, not just accidentally buried alive.