Talk:Catalepsy

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Catalepsy is realy ficction... I believe no one has been buried alive, unles with the purpose of dispearing his boddy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.1.250.162 (talk) 22:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

did someone make up that buried alive thing?

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No, it up.

I am from Nicaragua and we wait more than 20 hours before we buried people. In fact, my grand mother has been in two different places where people ashley got up of the coffins and stared walking.

Sounds weird and crazy, but it is the truth. Discovery channel has presented some shows about catalepsy and they show that some coffins had marks in the inside because people who were buried alive where scratching it.

Ask doctors and do a research and you will see it is the truth.

Anwar Jarquin, New Orleans, LA

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More info that could be added: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Baldwin/Dictionary/defs/C1defs.htm

Humans are endotherms who maintain their body temperature by their metabolism. Once dead, the body temperature will fall to the ambient temperature. Unless the ambient room temperature is in the 90's Fahrenheit, it is unlikely that simple catalepsy would be mistaken for death. The Wikipedia article on hypothermia indicates that heart function would cease by about 68º Fahrenheit. It also refers to revivals of avalanche victims when rewarmed to at least 90º F in the prognosis section and of revivals of child drowning victims having lower core body temperatures, but this involves efforts to rewarm the victim. There is no mention of spontaneous recovery of victims whose body temperature was low enough to cause severe hypothermia. People in the past weren't stupid. It is not likely they would bury a still warm corpse of a loved one, even if stiff.Tony Cooley (talk) 05:39, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Notwithstanding the unlikelihood of it happening, it has nevertheless happened, and recently so. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42609239. Three experienced doctors certified a man dead in 2018, but he was not.

I know of another book in which catalepsy is a very important part of the plot. However, it would spoil the book entirely for people who haven't read it. Should I add it to the list (and yes, it is a well-known book)? Protac (talk) 20:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Wikipedia can and does contain spoilers. (See

The Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola tells of a man being buried alive whilst in a cataleptic state. I will add this to the article as it is by a very noteworthy author and because the main character actually says "I must have fallen into one of those cataleptic states that I had read of". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.247.21 (talk) 16:56, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article says that professionals once considered this to be a sign of damnation. The phrasing could be taken to mean that medical professionals within the last several decades held this to be a viable opinion, which I doubt to be the case. At any rate, without qualification for time period and what kind of professionals are being referenced, it's hard to figure out what exactly is meant. Finally, since the "professionals" would have to be from the past, this would make more sense under a history section, not a section under causes. Phoenix1177 (talk) 07:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Catalepsy appears in Battle Angel Alita: Last Order. The Starship Cult's leader, Springfoot Jack makes one of his minions, Lily, into various objects by hypnosis that induces catalepsy. 69.122.231.134 (talk) 09:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC) -Jason[reply]

Come on... the trivial trivia section is larger than the actual part of the article that describes the topic at hand. This is completely unencyclopedic....

104.128.253.221 (talk) 02:39, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]