I've had a fear of being buried alive ever since I was three years old and saw them lowering my mother's casket into the ground. I was told she was "sleeping". I wondered if I would be put in a casket and lowered into the ground if I went to sleep. I had nightmares about it for years. It's also the reason I don't intend to get buried. . . Well okay, I will get buried, but I'll be cremated before I get buried so I will most definitely be dead. There's no way they're going to be able to bury me unless I'm absolutely dead.