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A close cousin of this is the "Sand Neck Tie", where a character is buried up to their neck in sand, with the intention of death from the incoming tide, dehydration or nasty animal-related death.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'': [[The Dragon]] and [[Two Faced]] [[Cyborg]] Baron Ashura was originally two persons were buried alive together for being caught trying to break their [[Star
* ''[[Naruto]]''
** A [[Filler]] episode has a villain who isn't satisfied just doing this -- he first holds a funeral where all the attendants have to just stand there while the guy in the casket is screaming his lungs out and pleading for his life. Raiga would recall the "good memories" they shared and "forgive" them for betraying his trust... right before proceeding with the burial.
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* ''[[Batman]]''
** This happens in ''Batman R.I.P.'' Interestingly, they plan not to kill Batman, but merely wait for him to be permanently brain-damaged, believing killing Batman's mind is more important than killing his body. {{spoiler|He escapes. And he's P*SSED....}}
** Happens again in a recent ''Batman'' story arc, done by [[The Joker]] to [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Dr. Hurt]]. The guy slips on a banana peel the Joker planted, breaks his neck (paralyzing him), then gets injected with Joker Venom and buried alive while still under its effects. Oh, and [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|Dr. Hurt is immortal]], [[A Fate Worse Than Death|so he's stuck, paralyzed]] [[Go Mad From the Isolation|and laughing at himself forever]] [[And I Must Scream|inside of a coffin six feet in the ground]]. {{spoiler|Though it's not like the Joker didn't WARN the guy first (see ''Batman: R.I.P.'')}}, and to be fair Hurt ''did'' [[Sealed Evil in A Can|kind of]] [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|deserve it]].
** Happened to [[Nightwing]] in the later run of his book. Instead of the usual version of going up, Nightwing went to the side, as the grave was near the edge of a cliff.
* In the first arc, "Public Enemies", of ''Superman/Batman'', Metallo shoots [[Superman]] with a [[Kryptonite Factor|kryptonite bullet]], and buries Superman and [[Batman]] alive. {{spoiler|They escape, and [[Battle Butler|Alfred]] removes the bullet.}}
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* [[Jack Vance (Creator)|Jack Vance]]'s ''[[Dying Earth (Literature)|Dying Earth]]'' novels mention the Spell of Forlorn Encystment, which keeps its victims alive indefinitely inside solid rock some sixty kilometers underground. A few victims are (accidentally) released and found to be in near-catatonic states.
* Pre-subverted in the third ''[[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]]'' book. Mulch Diggums, a dwarf whose entire race can dig through the dirt using only their jaws and hands and breathe while doing so (and we've known he can do this for three books), convinces two [[Dumb Muscle|dumb henchmen]] to do this to him. Needless to say, he has a good laugh about it afterwards. Hell, he has a good laugh ''during'' the burial, which he passes off as "shaking in fear". Right, Mulch.
* This happens to the main character of ''What Happened to Cassie McBride'', though if this is meant to kill her or [[Cold
* The protagonist of the [[Stephen King]] story ''Dolan's Cadillac'' (found in ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes'') does this to the title character as revenge for the murder of the protagonist's wife.
* In [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''[[Blood Books|Blood]]'' series, vampire Henry Fitzroy started his unlife by being buried alive for three days before his sire could dig him up. Several hundred years later, this is still a Very Unpleasant Memory.
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* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]''
** This was done to a previous occupant of Cordelia's apartment. ''In the apartment walls!''
** {{spoiler|Connor welds Angel into an airtight coffin and drops him to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean}} at the end of season 3. {{spoiler|[[Who Wants to Live Forever?|Angel being immortal]], this won't kill him, but instead makes him sorta really insane. Which was kind of the point.}}
* In ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'', David Banner faced one of his most horrific situations when he is confused for a lookalike gangster and rival gangsters capture him, ignore his protests that they have the wrong man and take him to a construction site. There, they force him into a shallow grave, put a sheet of clear plastic on him and pour concrete on him to bury him alive. When you see that kind of murder method, you're on the edge of your seat until the very last image of Banner just before his head is covered is his eyes going green to start his change into the Hulk.
* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' checked out survivability on this, and deemed it Busted. First, they found that human beings couldn't punch their way out of a cheap pine casket, much less a top of the line one. Then they found that even if a human could break out, there was no way a human being could dig their way up through six feet of dirt, and especially no way they could do it within the half hour or so they'd have before they ran out of air. Basically, anyone buried alive would be crushed by the weight of the dirt or suffocate.
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* General Fong of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' decides the best way to induce [[Super Mode|the Avatar State]] in Aang, to be used as a weapon against the Fire Nation, is to bury his [[True Companions|friends]] and make him fight to save them. Instead, this induces [[Unstoppable Rage|the Avatar State]] as a weapon against [[Too Dumb to Live|the dumbass who thought this was a good idea]].
* Villain Jambalaya Jake does this to [[Darkwing Duck]] at one point, using a box and lots of see-ment.
* Occurs in ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'', for [[What Measure Is a Non
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** He also spent over an hour in a sealed, underwater coffin to demonstrate that it could be done, to disprove another performer who claimed to use mystical powers to accomplish the feat. There was another buried alive escape planned, but it's not clear if it was ever performed prior to his death. Although rather ghoulishly the coffin that was to be used in the escape was put to use transporting his remains.
* 33 Chilean miners buried alive for 69 days in 2010. Their rescue was watched by the world in awe at the things humans can achieve when properly motivated.
* Beaconsfield miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb did it first, gaining international fame after surviving for a month underground. There was a play planned for the event, ''[[Dude, Not Funny|A Symphony in a Flat Minor]]''.
* The "Baby Jessica" incident, when 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell down a 22' deep, 8" wide well shaft in 1987. Three days' efforts to rescue her constituted one of the first major around-the-clock news stories covered by then-fledgling network CNN. Jessica survived the experience relatively unscathed, and recently received full control of the trust fund to which thousands of people sent donations after viewing the story.
* There's a [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/buried.asp snopes article about it], which includes a story from 1994.
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