He was in a graveyard. He was going to be buried alive!
It feels like we will be buried alive and all we can do is sit and watch them dig our graves.
but if some villagers caught him, at very least he would be buried alive!
Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
The earth is suffocating r to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.--Frederic Chopin, Polish composer
You wouldn't like to be buried alive.
He said later that he could only take half-breaths and that he knew what it would be like to be buried alive.