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Fear of being buried alive
Fear of being buried alive is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as [(from Greek] taphos, meaning "grave"), which is translated as "fear of graves".
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