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Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoTo be fair, it wasn’t until much later that I learned that the “buried alive” was metaphorical. See: debt, stress, etc.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 months ago
poppy@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I mean it was an actual thing too though!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature_burial
Wolf_359@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Happened during the Rape of Nanking too, except they did it on purpose to civilians.
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Oh for sure, but it’s not nearly as much an issue in day to day life as we were led to believe. I suppose I could have been clearer.