You are buried in a coffin 6ft deep, with no light or cell phone. There is only a small tube connected to the coffin from outside that allows you to breathe (edit: you can breathe with no difficulty). After 48 hours, you are dug up and given 1 million dollars. Do you do it?
Edit: No food and water, no diaper, and no contact with the outside world. Once buried, they leave for 48hr and come back to dig you up. The coffin is only wide enough for you to lay on your back (no rolling around), and the inside is wood and not particularly comfortable. The only items you’re allowed to bring with you are life sustaining medication (e.g. an asthma inhaler). No knocking yourself out with pills or anxiety meds. The money is a briefcase full of cash.
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gg easy
I wouldn’t be buried alive for an hour for a million dollars.
Having been in a MRI machine several times, absolutely fucking not. Maybe for 8hrs.
Ive already slept for 33 hours straight… Without drugs or anything… I guess that sounds like a good sleep (as long as its one of the comfy coffins and not just a wooden box)
I’d do it.
Yeah I’m just so damn tired all the time, I’d be okay. As long as I don’t eat beforehand, I can go a couple of days without pooping too, probably. It’s the dehydration that worries me, but with sleeping at least the first 24 hours straight I hope my bodily functions will be reduced enough that I’m alright after the 2nd day.
My first day off after work I always sleep at least 12 hours, sometimes up to 18. I’ve slept 30+ with just breaks for food, water, and bathroom before (after a couple of 20 hour shifts).
Man, just trying to imagine it, I wouldn’t be able to do it. It’s one thing to be confined to a small space, but a small space where you can’t roll around? I’d need at least enough room to roll over or stretch out my limbs. Also, I’d have no concept of the passage of time, so it’s very likely that I would go insane in there within the span of 48 hours. Sure, you could try and sleep a bit, but after 8-10 hours of that you’d be wide awake and have no idea how much time went by, with 40+ more to go.
I’m sure some people have probably done this for a lot less, though. I’m thinking of stowaways on cargo ships or airplanes who sealed themselves in a crate or something to get somewhere else, but I think in that case they at least had a little more space and hopefully a way to pass the time while voyaging.
48 hours without water is a no go.
You can go 3 days, especially with no physical exertion
The rule of three (human male, optimum health)
3 min sans air before brain damage/death 3 hrs in hostile environments before body succumbing 3 days without water before severe damage/death 3 weeks without food before death
Maybe you can. But the thing about statistics like that it’s that they avoid saying “the average person”, and problems with averages is that half of the people are under it.
If it’s not just made up data in the first place.
The thing is, the average person can survive about 4 days without water under normal circumstances. It would be even longer with no physical exertion, assuming it isn’t too hot and the humidity is right. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the vast majority of healthy adults could survive not drinking for 48 hours if they’re spending that entire 48 hours lying down. The things to worry about here are mental health and infection from waste, not dehydration.
The rule of thumb is “three days without water” because that’s how long most people can go. It’s not the ld50. It wouldn’t be a very popular rule of thumb if it got half of the people who followed it killed.
I’ve lived through severe dehydration. It’s nothing to fuck with.
I mean you lived through it. I can’t afford to get this weird patch of skin on my arm or the bump above my knee checked out, so I might legitimately not live through severe not having money
Risk analysis is different. I was dehydrated thanks to less than 24 hours without hydration and my body was fucked. I’m pretty sure forty eight would kill me. You are pretty sure that shit on your body ain’t right and that you can’t afford to get it checked out, much less treated. You’re risking your life if you do or if you don’t, so might as well go for the money. That said, if it’s serious, a million bucks might not be enough in this glorious healthcare system we’ve got.
Id fuck with it for a million dollars
You may not die immediately but your chances of kidney damage are pretty high in this situation.
I could do it.
You mean 48 hours of peace and quite AND I get a million‽ sigh me the fuck up.
That’s what I was thinking. Like, I have kids and a high stress job. This sounds like a vacation.
I’d sleep so good. I think this is going to be answered one way by youths and another way by old people who would pay for 48h of peace and quiet.
Yeah. I could kill a weekend and earn money.
Yes.
But what about using the bathroom?
No bathroom. If you have to go, you go in there.
Ooohh… I’ll get back to you on that.
that’s 27x my annual salary, sign me up
Wait, you guys have a salary?
Risk too high for reward. Maybe with water? Definitely would need an emergency end to the whole thing.
People who are saying no to this cuddos to you having it good. 48 hours of misery discomfort and I’ll be able to get ahead by a lot and make my life a bit better
What’s the oxygen situation like?
100% able to breathe with no issues.
Would that include my reflux going straight into my throat from laying on my back with my head down? Serious question…
Would ompreazole help?
(I have reflux and just had surgery to fix it. I understand how awful it is.)
I take meds (protonix I think - there have been so many), which help, but they only kill the acid, not stop everything from going into my throat (weak sphincter). So basically, it feels like I have the post nasal drip from hell in the back of my throat.
Now if you make the coffin where I can keep my head raised, that’s completely different.
As an aside, I’ve discussed surgery a couple times, but the last time (years ago), they basically said it only works for like a decade and you can’t throw up. Even the doctors were pretty meh about it. Anything changed? How was your experience?
For me it’s kinda like lasik - I have contacts that give me 20/10 vision and I’m so used to them, why risk it. With Gerd, I have meds that work and the only thing that really sucks are the cavities and waiting for breakfast. So is it worth it?
The surgery was worth it for me for several reasons, and I realize that these reasons aren’t applicable to most people.
I have very bad asthma, and apparently GERD can contribute to it quite a bit. Even though I was on a PPI I still had reflux fumes coming up out of my gut that I would breathe in. Strengthening the pyloric sphincter kept that from happening. I noticed that my breathing improved drastically a few days after the operation. I also had a hiatal hernia, which was likely not helping my breathing.
I also noticed that right around the time I stared using a PPI that I also developed multiple food allergies. It could be a coincidence, but even my gastroenterologist said that the change in digestion from the PPI might have contributed to development of the allergies. And I developed a few more along the way. So getting off of the PPI was important to me in that regard.
Anyway, my experience has been pretty positive. I can burp. Not sure if I can throw up from my stomach yet, but I have thrown up stuff that was sitting in my esophagus (I tried challenging foods too quickly street my surgery - learned my lesson there). I can finally sleep flat without regurgitation. So I’m pretty happy.
I don’t know if you have any desire to get off of Protonix, but if you ever do, I read this recently and it’s pretty interesting:
That’s great that it worked for you!
I game never heard of the turmeric, but I’m all ears for getting off of meds. Thank you immensely for that too!
Sure thing! Let me know how it goes. A friend has tested turmeric and it works for him.
