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* Kidnapped child [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Ursula_Herrmann Ursula Hermann]] was buried in a box in the woods while the kidnapper awaited ransom. She was given a pipe to breath through, but tragically the kidnapper had accidentally blocked it up while concealing it with leaves and she ended up suffocating.
* [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lisa_Rene Lisa Rene]] was buried alive by drug dealers in 1994 after being beaten over the head with a shovel, in order to exact RevengeByProxy against her brother for stiffing her killers on a deal.
* Child molester John Couey buried [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jessica_Lunsford Jessica Lunsford]] alive after stuffing her into a trash bag near his trailer.
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** If you pursue this ambition all the way to [[DreamLand Parabola]] and he'll do this this to you ''again'' in a nightmare. Luckily as this not the real world, it will only some damage to your SanityMeter... [[spoiler:Unless you have the Silverer profession, in which case you use your DreamWeaver powers to break out and come close to strangling him to death with a vine]].
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* Chapter Eleven of ''AlmostAFantasy'' contains several shout outs to Edgar Allan Poe's stories, and the main character is trapped in a basement of Roderick Usher's manor. He remembers that the unnamed narrator in Poe's "The Premature Burial" asked for a bell to be placed in his coffin and checks whether Usher did the same.
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* Barely averted in ''Film/DuelOfTheIronFist''; the hero, Tang Ren-jie, was captured alive by his enemies and tortured to near-unconsciousness, with a quartet of mooks deciding to dispose him while bound in a shroud and have him buried. Before they can pile the dirt, [[TheLancer Chiang Nan, The Rambler]] arrives and kills everyone in a BigDamnHeroes moment.
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** ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'': Having been driven completely AxCrazy, Kraven confronts Spidey, shoots him wtih a tranquilizer dart, buries him alive and then impersonates him. Spidey eventually digs his way out, but it takes ''a week'', due to Spidey having to recover from the paralysis that leaves him [[AndIMustScream still conscious and unable to move.]] Indeed, this experience clearly gave him nightmares for years to come, as every time Kraven was mentioned from that point on focuses on that event.

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** ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'': Having been driven completely AxCrazy, Kraven confronts Spidey, shoots him wtih with a tranquilizer dart, buries him alive and then impersonates him. Spidey eventually digs his way out, but it takes ''a week'', due to Spidey having to recover from the paralysis that leaves him [[AndIMustScream still conscious and unable to move.]] Indeed, this experience clearly gave him nightmares for years to come, as every time Kraven was mentioned from that point on focuses on that event.
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* The "king" of Qarth in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' gets this ending. He's locked in a rather spacious treasure vault with his girlfriend, and no food or water. This is a rare heroic version of it, as they both [[JerkassVictim truly deserved it]]. [[spoiler:He sold out his honored guests to someone who not only killed the town leaders, but tried to steal their dragons (and either kill them or keep them there forever); she betrayed the mistress she'd sworn to serve for life by helping him do it.]] They did all of this under the guise of trying to help the heroes, when they really wanted was riches with which to fill said vault)...making this very much a KarmicDeath.

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* The "king" of Qarth in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' gets this ending. He's locked in a rather spacious treasure vault with his girlfriend, and no food or water. This is a rare heroic version of it, as they both [[JerkassVictim truly deserved it]]. [[spoiler:He sold out his honored guests to someone who not only killed the town leaders, but tried to steal their dragons (and either kill them or keep them there forever); she betrayed the mistress she'd sworn to serve for life by helping him do it.]] They did all of this under the guise of trying to help the heroes, when they really wanted was riches with which to fill said vault)...vault...making this very much a KarmicDeath.
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* UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington used his last words to tell his niece not to bury him for at least two days after his death, in order to ensure he was actually dead. Such instructions was fairly common at the time, where the corpse would be laid out until it started to show obvious signs of decomposition.

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* UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington used his last words to tell his niece not to bury him for at least two days after his death, in order to ensure he was actually dead. Such instructions was were fairly common at the time, where the corpse would be laid out until it started to show obvious signs of decomposition.

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