The most famous instance of premature burial involved the soldier Fran\u00e7ois de Civille, who was said to have been thrice declared dead and as many times rescued from the tomb. He had been born by caesarean section to a dead mother exhumed from her coffin. He became an army captain. Later he was severely wounded in the siege of Rouen in 1563 and buried alive in a common grave on the battlefield. His servant, who had wanted to dig his master a more fitting grave, discovered that he was not dead. While Fran\u00e7ois de Civille was recovering from his wound, a troop of hostile soldiers burst into the house and threw the convalescent into a dung heap, where he remained buried for three days until dug out a third time, and nursed back to health. According to a gravestone in Milan, Fran\u00e7ois de Civille was finally buried in the graveyard of that city; he had died at the age of 105, from a chill contracted while “serenading the lady of his heart all night long.”<\/p>\n
Culled from:\u00a0Buried Alive<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of my favorite books is\u00a0Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective\u2019s Scrapbook<\/a>. \u00a0It is exactly what it says it is: a bizarre and oft-disturbing scrapbook collected over the years by Los Angeles area police detective Jack Huddleston, whose career spanned from 1921 to the early 1950\u2019s.\u00a0 This is definitely my favorite image from the book.\u00a0 Such a peaceful looking head!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/5cdf5b02-2043-99df-c259-4e393fb1734e.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nCar Crash Du Jour!<\/h3>\n