How long can a person buried alive for burial live in the grave?

In a space lacking everything necessary for life, what did the unfortunate victims who had to follow the dead go through before they died?

Funeral - a horrible custom in feudal times

In feudal times, China used to have an extremely creepy custom: Funeral of the living according to the dead (buried alive). In addition to feeling extremely afraid of this custom, many people also wonder: How long can those bereaved victims live underground in the cold? Records of a large-scale funeral that took place in the Lieu Dynasty will answer this question for posterity.

The practice of funeral in China has been completely banned since the Kangxi Dynasty (Qing Dynasty). Before, when it still existed, this custom took the lives of many innocent people. And one of the famous tombs for having a large number of living people buried alive in history is Gia Luat Boi's tomb from the Lieu Dynasty.

Because the old funeral system was so cruel and scary, any victim who was told that they had to be buried with the deceased would find a way to escape. Therefore, to avoid this situation, the royal aristocracy had devised another sinister way to accomplish their purpose.

Funerals were very popular in China during the pre-Qing period. (Photo: Baidu)

That is using tricks to trick innocent people who are "chosen" by them for burial. And the burial of hundreds of people alive in Gia Luat Boi's tomb is a typical example of the cruelty and vileness of the ancient royal aristocrats.

The trick that Gia Luat Boi's family used to trick him was to pretend to transport a huge cage to the family's tomb area. At the same time, spread the word that the cage contains extremely rare tigers. The way they weave their stories has aroused the curiosity of the people around.

The people wanted to see the strange animals with their own eyes, so they fell into a trap. They went to Gia Luat Boi's tomb area - where the cage is believed to hold the tiger in the hope of witnessing.

Many innocent people were tricked into being pushed into huge "pits" to be buried alive.

Unexpectedly, while watching passionately, the innocent people were humiliated by Gia Luat Boi's family members and pushed hard into the tomb. By the time they realized they had been tricked, these poor people could not do anything because the tomb door was slammed shut right after.

The terrible thing that hundreds of innocent people had to endure when being pushed into the tomb was that they could not die immediately, but had to go through a horrible situation before they died.

How long can a bereaved victim live?

According to records, at first, they tried their best to scream for help. The cry for help kept echoing from the tomb and gradually decreased after 4 days. And it is this detail that has led many people to think that: Unlucky people who were buried with the dead in the past could live up to 4 days.

Funeral is one of the scariest customs in Chinese feudal history.

But this conclusion is somewhat contrary to basic scientific knowledge. When a person does not eat continuously, he will die in only 3 days. So why are those who were buried alive in the tomb of Gialawi could live to the 4th day?

This is closely related to the arrangement in the tomb. Not only Gia Luat Boi's family, many other rich families in the past buried a part of food and fruit with the dead next to a large amount of gold, silver, and treasures.

And this little food helped those who were tricked to die according to Gia Luat Boi to hold their breath for the first few days. But the number of dead people was quite large (hundreds of people), and the amount of food was limited, so they couldn't hold out much longer. There were even rumors that, because the food in the grave was too little, hundreds of people in Gia Luat Boi's tomb had to kill themselves, kill each other, drink each other's blood because of hunger and thirst.

The victims of the funeral custom had to go through scenes of suffering beyond the imagination of posterity before dying.

Although it's just a rumor, in fact, archaeologists have actually found great damage on a series of remains of victims who were killed by the practice of funerals. This shows that the rumors spread above have a certain basis.

And if this rumored assumption is true, it's really hard to imagine all the horrors that those buried alive had to go through before they died.