She, ill for quite some time, finally passed away after lying in a coma for several days. He was devastated beyond belief, as she was his one true love and it had been love at first sight. They were married so long it seemed as if they knew each others innermost thoughts. After the doctor pronounced her dead, he insisted that she was not. They had to literally pry him away from his wife's body so they could ready her for burial. Now, back in those days they had backyard burial plots and did not drain the body of its fluids. They simply prepared a proper coffin and committed the body (in its coffin) to its permanent resting place. Throughout this process, he protested so fiercely that he had to be sedated and put to bed. His wife was buried and that was that. That night he woke to a horrific vision of his wife hysterically trying to scratch her way out of the coffin. He phoned the doctor immediately and begged to have his wife's body exhumed. The doctor refused, but he had this nightmare every night for a week, each time frantically begging to have his wife removed from the grave. Finally the doctor gave in and, together with local authorities, exhumed the body. The coffin was pried open and to everyone's horror and amazement, her nails were bent back and there were obvious scratches on the inside of the coffin. Based on the urban legend of being buried alive. This was rendered in Poser 7, postwork in PS CS. All together I spent approximately 10-12 hours getting this ready to post. I picked this legend because I've wondered if this actually happened before the days of embalming.