Liz's death obsession

[Rydell]

This would solve the whole death obsession thing...
Roger to Liz "Of course you won't be buried alive, Dear.  When the time comes you'll be embalmed.  You'll be dead for sure.  Now stop worrying."

[CandleLighter]

Oh my goodness.. can you imagine not only fearing you are going to be buried alive but then to be told you are going to be embalmed alive...yikes!  [shkdy]    

[Cassandra]

Oh my goodness.. can you imagine not only fearing you are going to be buried alive but then to be told you are going to be embalmed alive...yikes!  [shkdy]    

I don't think Liz would fare to well with that one. Then she'd be going around telling everyone that her family is trying to drain the blood from right under her. :-)

[Connie]

This is certainly a cheerful topic.  It seems the fear of being buried alive is an age-old problem.  I read in one of Chopin's biographies that he requested his heart be removed before he was buried so as to make certain he would not be buried alive.
And get this....when my sister-in-law died suddenly two months ago, my brother told me she had always been very specific regarding her remains.  She did not want to be buried in the ground.  She wanted to be entombed, with the door left slightly open.  
I assume the fear of being buried alive plays a part in this??

Morbidly yours,
CLC

[VAM]

This is certainly a cheerful topic.  It seems the fear of being buried alive is an age-old problem.  

Reruns of the PREMATURE BURIAL for anyone?

[Carol]

Reruns of the PREMATURE BURIAL for anyone?

Or the Fall of the House of Usher.

Wasn't that about people being buried alive when they were really in a comatose state?

[Carol]

This would solve the whole death obsession thing...
Roger to Liz "Of course you won't be buried alive, Dear.  When the time comes you'll be embalmed.  You'll be dead for sure.  Now stop worrying."

LOL. My husband told me the same thing when I questioned about the fear of waking up entombed. Once you're embalmed, you're not going nowhere he said.

[jennifer]

what a creepy topic and what a cruel thing Cassandra
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another reason find Barnabas declaration of love for her
in 1840 lame The cruel things she did to his family
would be too much too forget!
Being frozen sounds better too me anyway!
but also felt this storyline got old really fast i think Joan
B had other projects and needed to be written out for a while but why couldn't she go to Boston shopping!

jennifer

[Craig_Slocum]

Once you're embalmed, you're not going nowhere he said.

That's right, so why worry about it? I guess in Liz's case she had a valid reason since she had a curse put on her by a witch. I think that's the second cruelest thing Angelique did, in comparison to the curse she put on Barnabas.

[scout75]

(W)hy couldn't (Elizabeth) go to Boston shopping!

My thoughts exactly! Why must we endure this tiresome backburner storyline? Surely Joan Bennett was used to having a teeny-tiny part in the show by this time!

[Joeytrom]

This subplot of Liz fearing being buried alive is a long one...it lasts for 100 episodes!!

[Rydell]

Oh well.  I guess embalming wasn't a common practice in Collonsport.  Perhaps since they didn't make any money that way,  the funeral home people could have had a side business re upholstering caskets.  "Would that be the velvet Mr Collins?  Or did you decide on the Flexsteel?"
Btw, if people had been embalmed they couldn't have been dug up and used for parts.

[scout75]

...if people had been embalmed they couldn't have been dug up and used for parts.

Indeed!

It would be very inconsiderate for Collinsport's dearly departed populace to be embalmed. After all, you never know when you'll have the need for a man-made man or be forced to create for him a mate.

In some towns, people take up jogging or the like to stay physically fit; in Collinsport, however, it seems grave robbing is the way to stay in shape!