Would you be buried alive for 48hr for a million dollars?

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.

Pointtwogo,
@Pointtwogo@lemmy.ml avatar

Just 48 hours or a MILLION? Yes. YES. Sign me up! 100%!

Moghul,

Anyone who thinks this is a good deal doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Experiments involving similar conditions have been done before, and it’s never really a pleasant experience. Solitary confinement is fucking tough.

Take this for example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD43 days in a small room alone with no real entertainment. Even that had significant effect on Michael’s wellbeing.

Keep in mind usually you can still move around and exercise in solitary confinement to keep you relatively sane. In a coffin? Have a look at sensory deprivation tanks. That’s the closest thing to this hypothetical situation, and the people who sell the experience recommend you don’t spend more than an hour in there.

xkforce,

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    Moghul,

    That million dollars would solve a lot of problems for a lot of people but you would suffer from the effects probably for the rest of your life. Therapy isn’t a magic bullet to kill any ailment of the mind. I’m sure it would be an option worth considering, but it’s up there with selling a kidney, in my mind.

    xkforce,

    Can I do it again later if I need another million?

    Resol,
    @Resol@lemmy.world avatar

    I’d rather die to give a million dollars to my family than do this.

    Yeah, that got way too dark way too quickly.

    Tangent5280,

    I’m sure they’d rather have you than a million dollars

    Resol,
    @Resol@lemmy.world avatar

    I’ve probably spent enough time with my family anyway.

    willis936,

    What’s the oxygen situation like?

    TheGiantKorean,
    @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

    100% able to breathe with no issues.

    Zebov,

    Would that include my reflux going straight into my throat from laying on my back with my head down? Serious question…

    TheGiantKorean,
    @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

    Would ompreazole help?

    (I have reflux and just had surgery to fix it. I understand how awful it is.)

    Zebov,

    I take meds (protonix I think - there have been so many), which help, but they only kill the acid, not stop everything from going into my throat (weak sphincter). So basically, it feels like I have the post nasal drip from hell in the back of my throat.

    Now if you make the coffin where I can keep my head raised, that’s completely different.

    As an aside, I’ve discussed surgery a couple times, but the last time (years ago), they basically said it only works for like a decade and you can’t throw up. Even the doctors were pretty meh about it. Anything changed? How was your experience?

    For me it’s kinda like lasik - I have contacts that give me 20/10 vision and I’m so used to them, why risk it. With Gerd, I have meds that work and the only thing that really sucks are the cavities and waiting for breakfast. So is it worth it?

    TheGiantKorean,
    @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

    The surgery was worth it for me for several reasons, and I realize that these reasons aren’t applicable to most people.

    I have very bad asthma, and apparently GERD can contribute to it quite a bit. Even though I was on a PPI I still had reflux fumes coming up out of my gut that I would breathe in. Strengthening the pyloric sphincter kept that from happening. I noticed that my breathing improved drastically a few days after the operation. I also had a hiatal hernia, which was likely not helping my breathing.

    I also noticed that right around the time I stared using a PPI that I also developed multiple food allergies. It could be a coincidence, but even my gastroenterologist said that the change in digestion from the PPI might have contributed to development of the allergies. And I developed a few more along the way. So getting off of the PPI was important to me in that regard.

    Anyway, my experience has been pretty positive. I can burp. Not sure if I can throw up from my stomach yet, but I have thrown up stuff that was sitting in my esophagus (I tried challenging foods too quickly street my surgery - learned my lesson there). I can finally sleep flat without regurgitation. So I’m pretty happy.

    I don’t know if you have any desire to get off of Protonix, but if you ever do, I read this recently and it’s pretty interesting:

    medicalnewstoday.com/…/turmeric-may-effectively-r…

    Zebov,

    That’s great that it worked for you!

    I game never heard of the turmeric, but I’m all ears for getting off of meds. Thank you immensely for that too!

    TheGiantKorean,
    @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

    Sure thing! Let me know how it goes. A friend has tested turmeric and it works for him.

    FluffyPotato,

    Very much no. I wouldn’t last an hour, let alone 48 and if I did I would be fucked up for life.

    CADmonkey,

    A quick run to DDG for casket dimensions, along with some poking at my calculator tells me that if you were buried, you and your casket or coffin would have approximately 5,100 kg of soil on top of it. Caskets have thin steel in them, coffins are typically wood. I feel like any dead body containment device one could buy wouldn’t be able to hold that weight.

    Let me design the coffin and I’d consider it.

    Tangent5280,

    bruh you know you’d design a full on panic room with airconditioning, a flatscreen and a PS5

    CADmonkey,

    Obviously I would.

    simple,

    I would. It would be the worst 48 hours of my life especially since I’m claustrophobic but 48 hours are really not that long in the grand scheme of things. Better than working for 15+ years for the same amount.

    traches,

    In certain circumstances 10 seconds can be an eternity.

    Serdan,

    It can feel like an eternity in the moment, but it’s still just ten seconds.

    Greg,
    @Greg@lemmy.ca avatar

    Unless you’re trapped at the horizon of a black hole but I don’t think that’s really relevant in this conversation

    traches,

    Which matters more in this scenario, actual reality or your perception of it?

    Serdan,

    I’ve tripped balls where the concept of time was torn asunder. Wasn’t a great time, but time still passed by, and my mind didn’t “break” or whatever it is people believe will happen.

    You can’t actually experience a lifetime in those moments of eternity.

    traches,

    There are absolutely experiences that will permanently traumatize a human mind which take less than 10 seconds.

    The circumstances described by the OP are worse than you think. Minutes would be fine, hours would progress from misery to torture fairly quickly. Those of us saying it’s not worth it aren’t saying it because we don’t want a million bucks, we just value our sanity and understand how life-ruiningly horrible it would be.

    Serdan,

    You’re just asserting things without evidence or reason.

    motherjones.com/…/donald-o-hebb-effects-extreme-i…

    Most people in voluntary isolation (with sensory deprivation too!) will quit after a couple of days. I don’t know what $20 a day amounts to in today’s money, but it ain’t a million.

    traches,

    Well, in your study they still got to eat, drink, and walk to the bathroom. They had rooms, beds, and tables, and they were fed by humans. They could stop at any time. OP’s scenario has none of that; you’re in an uncomfortable wooden box with no room to move for 48 hours.

    I couldn’t find any studies that extreme, and maybe you’re right that it might be tolerable for some, but I’m pretty sure I’d come out of that box broken in a bad way.

    Serdan,

    They were sensory deprived to an extreme extent. It doesn’t matter that there are people around if you can’t see them, can’t hear them, can’t feel them. You’re severely downplaying the effect of that to make the box seem worse.

    In the box, you can stimulate your hearing so you won’t get auditory hallucinations. You can also feel things and tap the side of the box, etc. I assume it’s dark, so you may get some visual hallucinations. I’m not sure how darkness affects that. It’s manageable, though.

    Isolation is torture when it’s a very long or even indeterminate duration. Two days is a duration that most people can endure, as per the experiment. You know that going in and can prepare yourself mentally.

    I’ve endured severe pain, I’ve endured panic attacks, and I’ve endured bad trips without time and a fractured reality. I don’t know what kind of life you’ve led, but my experience tells me that while two days in a box is absolutely going to be a miserable experience, it will quickly be forgotten.

    Edit: And with a million bucks, I can pay for a good therapist, which I need regardless.

    Wahots,
    @Wahots@pawb.social avatar

    I know how this one went…

    https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/fb077bb8-d021-4b34-accf-bdede018d92f.jpeg

    Think I’ll pass!

    Anticorp,

    I don’t understand Sadam’s strategy with that hole. Was he planning on living there the rest of his life, or was he thinking the USA would get tired of looking for him and move on?

    Wahots,
    @Wahots@pawb.social avatar

    I have no idea, but I assume it was a last-ditch effort to avoid getting capped. Excellent meme though.

    Rockyrikoko,

    Spider hole!

    CmdrShepard,

    Could I hire a guy and pay him 48 hours of minimum wage to lay in the coffin for me and then collect the million dollars at the end? I think I just invented capitalism.

    Piers,

    What makes you think OP hasn’t just been offered 10 million dollars to lay in a coffin for 48 hours?

    HappySashimi,

    Trickle down economics.

    legoshark,

    Given people have died during these buried alive challenges, that will be a resounding no from me. There’s also a small chance that something happens to the people that bury you and you die slowly in the dark, never knowing what transpired and why you’re still there. Not worth the risk.

    TheGiantKorean,
    @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

    There’s also a small chance that something happens to the people that bury you and you die slowly in the dark, never knowing what transpired and why you’re still there. Not worth the risk.

    That’s a horrifying thought. I recall an episode of some show where someone tried to escape prison by being put in a coffin with someone who died so that she could be dug up outside, but when she woke up and checked to see who she was buried with it was the guy who was supposed to dig her up.

    eerongal,
    @eerongal@ttrpg.network avatar

    That’s an old Alfred Hitchcock episode iirc

    TheGiantKorean,
    @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

    Yes! It was! Thank you.

    www.dailymotion.com/video/xvk2ap

    Lightsong,

    With how shitty my job is, I’d do this in heart beat. Just suffer for 48 hours and I’m well off for the rest of my life. I’ll prob still need to work but I could buy a house and all. The just work same shitty job to just pay the bills. Or since I’ll have some cushion, I could try and look for other jobs.

    Sign me up.

    cjsolx,

    I’d do it too. Here I am working my ass off for the next 30 years to save maybe $1m for retirement and someone’s willing to just give it to me after 48hrs of suffering? No brainer. I’d ask questions about the plan to keep it safe of course, but if I was satisfied that they knew what they were doing, I’d do it no question. I’m surprised that most are saying no to this. I mean shit, at least try.

    sudo_shinespark,

    How much of that million do I lose to tax afterward?

    TheGiantKorean,
    @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s a briefcase full of cash.

    Kerfuffle,

    It’s a briefcase full of cash.

    I’m pretty sure you could just say “It’s tax free” or even double the amount to $2 million and it wouldn’t really change which people would do it and which wouldn’t.

    I’d do it, as long as I was really convinced that the only danger was mental, not physical.

    user224,
    @user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    After all the taxes and other fees, you have to pay $117.56 /j

    sudo_shinespark,

    It’s not cheap to keep a coffin air tube running for two straight days

    starman2112,

    Apparently you’d owe around $350,000 in taxes if the IRS found out, but I don’t know if there’s anything you can do to reduce that. Even after that, I’d do it for $650,000. That’s still over 40 years of my current minimum wage job

    Scrof,

    48 hours without water? Absolutely not. There is a high probability of exiting a cripple or dead, at least for me. Not to mention my medicine.

    Valmond,

    Just drink a lot before and you’d be good to go IMO

    Edit: at a normal temperature of course.

    CmdrShepard,

    Then you’d drown in your own urine.

    Valmond,

    Just drink it!!

    Weirdfish,

    If you are producing enough urine to drown in a coffin in 48 hours you should see a urologist

    CmdrShepard,

    Wait they didn’t make the rest of you guys lay face down in the coffin? What the heck!

    Khrux,

    You definitely couldn’t produce enough urine to fill the coffin. You would definitely end up lying in piss but that’s not too bad for a million, plus it may drain out the bottom.

    Wahots,
    @Wahots@pawb.social avatar

    OP said no diaper, which means you are pissing and shitting yourself, and you’ll be soaking in it at ground temperature, around 55f. Might be a tad uncomfortable, lol.

    Unless you are God-tier at holding it…

    Ataraxia,

    I’ve spent that much time without water without knowing it lol. It’s not a long period of time without water.

    Kerfuffle,

    You probably ate or drank other stuff with water. The other person didn’t mean “water” specifically, just some means of hydration.

    Takina_sOldPairTM,
    @Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world avatar

    Inb4 this is a MrBeast staff looking for ideas…

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