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.

spittingimage,
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Pretty sure that would mess me up mentally for life. So probably not.

ulemmyagain,

nope

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.

JuzoInui,

If it was done at that moment, no. BUT if I KNEW that in advance, I’d could prep myself for that ( and even if I had doubts there’s a MILLION reasons to go thru with it) and some old school perseverance will win the day

ShittyBeatlesFCPres,

I’d sleep so good. I think this is going to be answered one way by youths and another way by old people who would pay for 48h of peace and quiet.

sagrotan,
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No. Money is not that important, by far. I’d play you for 10k, holdem or Omaha, anytime, though. Send me location.

russjr08,
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No. There’s not a thing that exists in the known or unknown universe that could convince me to go through with that.

newtraditionalists,

Nah. I wouldn't be able to enjoy the money dealing with the ptsd this would likely cause.

starman2112,

So what you’re saying is, would I lie in my own waste in the dark for 2 days tops for

maths

60+ years worth of my current wage? I’ll go in right now

bender,
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As long as I have enough oxygen and food.

TheGiantKorean,
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

No food.

bender,
@bender@insaneutopia.com avatar

no deal

Jordan117,

You can’t go two days without eating for a million dollars?

Make it two weeks in the coffin and it would be a hard sell, but this seems like a pretty easy call. It would suck shit but it would be physically safe and more than worth the money.

Cryophilia,

Two days without water or without standing up can be very dangerous to your health. Not to mention at some point you’ll pee yourself, which is also dangerous to sit in for that long.

simon574,

I think this is a pretty good pitch for a twitch stream, you just need a way to record live footage of the poor person in the coffin.

Narrrz, (edited )

can I bring a pillow? I'd love 48 hours with no disturbances to catch up on my sleep.

TheGiantKorean,
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

No pillows, book, or anything besides life sustaining medication.

over_clox,

Wait wait wait…

We’re allowed medication, but not water?

Now that don’t sound right at all yo. Everyone needs water at bare minimum, plus you can’t swallow many medications without water…

relative_iterator,
@relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works avatar

A lot of people concerned about water but if it’s not very hot and you’re not sweating too much 48 hours shouldn’t be a problem.

betwixthewires,

Yeah and 6 feet underground the temperature is gonna be in the low 70s.

edgarde,
@edgarde@lemmy.world avatar

I imagine in a few hours that environment will be around body temperature.

betwixthewires,

You severely underestimate the heat storage capacity of the ground. Geothermal heat pumps work off that principle: at 6-8 feet underground the temperature is constant (in spite of the sun shining on it all the time, that should give you an idea how minimally one human body would impact it) and moving heat into it dissipates it in the ground and has a minimal impact. You probably wouldn’t even get a noticeable change in temperature in 48 hours. You can cool a whole house for a whole summer and probably only locally notice a 1° increase in local temperature around where it’s pumped to by the end of the summer, heat that then can be used in the winter.

mateomaui,

Nice try. I’d like a restraining order now, and stay within my line of sight please.

TheMusicalFruit,

Yes, but only if it wasn’t short notice. I would want to practice building up to 48 hours in a similar sized box above ground.

JuzoInui,

Good thinking laddie.

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