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.

Supertramper,

Usually I don’t have a problem with narrow spaces, but being unable to move at all is a deal breaker for me. I feel like that would be seriously painful after a few hours, mentally AND physically.

roguetrick,

48 hours without water can put you at risk for death, I wouldn't recommend trying.

DocBlaze,

that’s the only thing stopping me. I’d do it with a couple bottles of water for half the money. the water doesn’t even have to be particularly accommodating, just relatively clean where I won’t get a disease, so you could even leave a decent size puddle of muddy water inside the pit and I am in for just 500K.

Takina_sOldPairTM,
@Takina_sOldPairTM@lemmy.world avatar

Inb4 this is a MrBeast staff looking for ideas…

Espresso,

No, I would die of being panic long before being dig up.

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.

jeremy_sylvis,
@jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social avatar

I feel like $1 million is more than enough to pay for any therapy necessary to patch up any possible resulting breaks in my psyche with plenty to spare.

I’m pretty sure many years worth of my salary for 48 hours of extreme stress is worth it given parenthood and career already yield moderate to high stress regularly; investing the $1 million well could push up retirement quite a bit.

Plus, let’s be real - I get at least some legit rest in there.

JuzoInui,

Preparation is key here. Given a heads up and prep time, I’d go for it full stop.

WillardHerman,
@WillardHerman@lemmy.world avatar

Make it also no oxygen, and you got yourself a deal.

Crackhappy,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

Suicide by words

Anticorp,

Some magician tried this at a local children’s theme park when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, he was supposed to escape or something. He miscalculated the weight of the soil and was crushed to death.

TheGiantKorean,
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

Ugh 😔

ViewSonik,

Having been in a MRI machine several times, absolutely fucking not. Maybe for 8hrs.

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

set_secret,

not for a billion.

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ive already slept for 33 hours straight… Without drugs or anything… I guess that sounds like a good sleep (as long as its one of the comfy coffins and not just a wooden box)

I’d do it.

Cryophilia,

Yeah I’m just so damn tired all the time, I’d be okay. As long as I don’t eat beforehand, I can go a couple of days without pooping too, probably. It’s the dehydration that worries me, but with sleeping at least the first 24 hours straight I hope my bodily functions will be reduced enough that I’m alright after the 2nd day.

My first day off after work I always sleep at least 12 hours, sometimes up to 18. I’ve slept 30+ with just breaks for food, water, and bathroom before (after a couple of 20 hour shifts).

toxicbubble,

that’s 27x my annual salary, sign me up

over_clox,

Wait, you guys have a salary?

sagrotan,
@sagrotan@lemmy.world avatar

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

russjr08,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

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

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