Shelby Flowers

Shelby Flowers

Summary:

            Being buried alive is one of all human beings biggest fears.  Shut up in a coffin, unable to move, only a little bit of oxygen, death is eminent.  When a family in Honduras thinks they hear the crying of their loved one who was just buried the day before, they start to tear up the entire grave and tomb to try to save her.  They will do anything to get her out and to help her all the while imagining that she is really alive.  The pressure to save her is incredible and the force with which they are moving a cement tomb is unbelievable, all in an attempt to save a dead person who has been dead for days.  The mind is a powerful machine that will cause the sanest person to believe that their loved one has been wrongfully buried.  It can give us false hope.  It is the different stages of grief that we go through that causes us to imagine or want to believe that something so far fetched is real.  Death is the ultimate end to life.  There is no turning back, no second chances, no do overs.  It is just the end. 

Analysis: 

             Benjamin Radford wrote this article in August of 2015 after the victim’s husband was interviewed on television about his experience of hearing his wife crying for help from her grave.

This article is compared to others that showcase how the mind can work tricks on people and how the different stages of grief can confuse even the best of people. Death does not discriminate and it will happen to everyone eventually. 

I see this as an exploitation of people grieving.  The media took advantage of a young husband who had just lost his wife and they gave him a stage to promote what he thought was his young wife who had wrongfully buried.  His subconscious was not allowing him to see reality but wanted to feed his grief and imagine that his wife was still alive.