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.
Just 48 hours or a MILLION? Yes. YES. Sign me up! 100%!
Would I get to wear a diaper and get at least 2 bottles of water?
No and no.
It’s the damnedest thing. These pants I picked to be buried in came with a built in water bladder and refuse collection system. Weird huh?
They found your modifications to be against the rules, and now you’re buried pantsless
Meh, I’ll just deal with it and drink lots of water first. Fuckit, sign me up!
If no animals/bugs can get in, I’m allowed enough room to roll around and I have a phone with hours of downloaded content and a power bank I’m all set
Tight enough that you can’t roll around. You’re basicslly stuck lying on your back.
Pretty sure standard coffin sizes would be big enough for an ordinary person to roll over.
He said no cell phone, so you’re just alone with your thoughts.
Damn so sitting in your own piss and shit too. I dont think I can do it then
Nah. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the money dealing with the ptsd this would likely cause.
Cool. Guess I know what they’ll be doing to me in hell
Nice try. I’d like a restraining order now, and stay within my line of sight please.
Is the air tube mechanically assisted? I’m not sure I could handle the effort of basically pumping air 6ft back and forth with my lungs for 48 hours.
It allows enough air into the coffin to keep you alive and breathing without any difficulty.
Then absolutely. Is this even a hard question for any rationale person?
I think you are trivializing it a bit. Just try lying in your bed on your back for 24 hours without turning and you would realize this is not going to be comfortable at all. Add to that the complete inability to tell how much time has passed and you may start to lose your shit. I would probably start to believe that I had been forgotten because my sense of time would be way off.
Decades of work will do just as much damage to my psyche as 48 hours in a coffin, and it’s going to do a lot more damage to my body
Yeah, there would really be no way to know how much time has passed.
Do it like Senku (Dr stone) and his multi processor brain. He calculated his entombment to the second for 3,500 years. True he’s a anime badass, but I could pull off 2 days using my internal clock. I hope.
Just count your heartbeat, like 230.000 and you’re good :-p
Yep. I get it. It’s going to be really fucking uncomfortable. I’ll be hungry, thirsty, sore, and will lose my concept of time. And then I’ll have a million dollars. How long will it take you to earn a million dollars in any other fashion? Unless your Jeff Bezos you’ll have much more accumulated discomfort and assorted bullshit over that period of time than just dealing with it all at once. This is a easy decision.
I think it’s more than that. Was an EMT for a long time and had to scoop up many an old timer who’d fallen and been unable to get up. Unfortunately it’s been a while and I’ve been bumped on the head once or twice, but I recall there being concern of issues like compartment syndrome that came from basically spending 10 or 12 hours on a floor unable to get up. I’m sure age and position have something to do with it, but I just don’t know if your body will come out the same on the other side. And now you’re spending that million on medical care if you’re like me and from America.
Well remember a good 50-100k is going to be gone right off the bat for the hospital stay afterwards.
And there’s always the chance of a blood clot. Very dangerous when immobile that long.
Still worth it tho.
The sheer thought if this makes me slightly panicky. Which I guess isn’t rational but yeah I don’t think I could bring myself to do it.
Well yeah? 48hrs without being able to move, stuck underground without food or water would be terrible, I would go insane
I think it would be particularly awful for people who are claustrophobic.
A million dollars will buy you the best anti psychotic drugs you can buy ( and the legal ones will be less)
I’m not sure you know how much a million dollars actually is or how effective drugs are on your mental well-being. They’re not magic, it’s still probably going to be years of problems and while a million dollars is enough to make you live very comfortably, it’s not enough to actually make you rich rich.
I personally don’t think you can put a price on your health, mental or physical, and being immobile for 48 hours in a wooden box is going to be very hard on your physical health as well.
People have turned to suicide under shorter time periods. I don’t trust my mental health (or bodily health, water etc) in such a situation, and it might permanently damage me for the rest of my life for a mere 1m. 1B before I even consider, and still probably no unless I think I’m making a sacrifice for others or something and don’t expect to be alive.
I’m not claustrophobic and I’m very lazy. I’d do it. I got pretty annoyed when I tried a “sensory deprivation tank” and there was light and sound leaking in. 48 hours is a long time, but not dangerously so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation
In chamber REST, the subject lies on a bed in a completely dark and sound-reducing (on average, 80 dB) room for up to 24 hours. Their movement is restricted by the experimental instructions, but not by any mechanical restraints. Food, drink, and toilet facilities are provided in the room and are at the discretion of the tester, who can communicate with the participants using an open intercom. Subjects are allowed to leave the room before the 24 hours are complete; however, fewer than 10% actually do because they find the chamber so relaxing.[8] Chamber REST affects psychological functioning (thinking, perception, memory, motivation, and mood) and psychophysiological processes.
Those people were allowed to eat, drink and eliminate (and presumably get up and stretch while they did), but this doesn’t seem terribly far off from your question.
I think it would be interesting to compare answers alongside things like our jobs, income, and location, because there’s very little I wouldn’t do for a “mere” million dollars
I would have 100% done this in my 20s when I was borderline homeless and dumpster diving to live. But now I’m older and a million dollars is less life changing than it would have been then. Sure more financial comfort would be nice but my basic needs are taken care of. Plus my body is in way worse shape now. I’m old and lame now and less likely to do ridiculous shit for the experience. I don’t think I would do it.
A million dollars is only about 15 years of wages for me, and I’d still do it (assuming competence on part of the people making the offer).
You guys are getting paid for this?
I just needed a place to crash.
An apartment like that goes for a couple grand a month in NYC or San Fran, and you still have to cover utilities.
If I can stop whenever (without payment), sign me up. It will be boring tho… Very boring. Probably will need to keep my mind occupied because that situation can make you go crazy.
No stopping. Once you commit, they bury you, leave, and come back 48hr later to dig you up.
I think I’ll either be on the brink of death or mentally disabled by the time I get that money, so no.
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Without food, water or even a diaper? Ew… no.
48 hours without water? Absolutely not. There is a high probability of exiting a cripple or dead, at least for me. Not to mention my medicine.
I’ve spent that much time without water without knowing it lol. It’s not a long period of time without water.
You probably ate or drank other stuff with water. The other person didn’t mean “water” specifically, just some means of hydration.
Just drink a lot before and you’d be good to go IMO
Edit: at a normal temperature of course.
OP said no diaper, which means you are pissing and shitting yourself, and you’ll be soaking in it at ground temperature, around 55f. Might be a tad uncomfortable, lol.
Unless you are God-tier at holding it…
Then you’d drown in your own urine.
Just drink it!!
You definitely couldn’t produce enough urine to fill the coffin. You would definitely end up lying in piss but that’s not too bad for a million, plus it may drain out the bottom.
If you are producing enough urine to drown in a coffin in 48 hours you should see a urologist
Wait they didn’t make the rest of you guys lay face down in the coffin? What the heck!
I would. It would be the worst 48 hours of my life especially since I’m claustrophobic but 48 hours are really not that long in the grand scheme of things. Better than working for 15+ years for the same amount.
In certain circumstances 10 seconds can be an eternity.
It can feel like an eternity in the moment, but it’s still just ten seconds.
Unless you’re trapped at the horizon of a black hole but I don’t think that’s really relevant in this conversation
Which matters more in this scenario, actual reality or your perception of it?
I’ve tripped balls where the concept of time was torn asunder. Wasn’t a great time, but time still passed by, and my mind didn’t “break” or whatever it is people believe will happen.
You can’t actually experience a lifetime in those moments of eternity.
There are absolutely experiences that will permanently traumatize a human mind which take less than 10 seconds.
The circumstances described by the OP are worse than you think. Minutes would be fine, hours would progress from misery to torture fairly quickly. Those of us saying it’s not worth it aren’t saying it because we don’t want a million bucks, we just value our sanity and understand how life-ruiningly horrible it would be.
You’re just asserting things without evidence or reason.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/donald-o-hebb-effects-extreme-isolation/
Most people in voluntary isolation (with sensory deprivation too!) will quit after a couple of days. I don’t know what $20 a day amounts to in today’s money, but it ain’t a million.
Well, in your study they still got to eat, drink, and walk to the bathroom. They had rooms, beds, and tables, and they were fed by humans. They could stop at any time. OP’s scenario has none of that; you’re in an uncomfortable wooden box with no room to move for 48 hours.
I couldn’t find any studies that extreme, and maybe you’re right that it might be tolerable for some, but I’m pretty sure I’d come out of that box broken in a bad way.
idk, people that would care to get me out now can inherit a million $
I wouldn’t be buried alive for an hour for a million dollars.