Would you be buried alive for 48hr for a million dollars?
Would you be buried alive for 48hr for a million dollars?
You are buried in a coffin 6ft deep, with no light or cell phone. There is only a small tube connected to the coffin from outside that allows you to breathe (edit: you can breathe with no difficulty). After 48 hours, you are dug up and given 1 million dollars. Do you do it?
Edit: No food and water, no diaper, and no contact with the outside world. Once buried, they leave for 48hr and come back to dig you up. The coffin is only wide enough for you to lay on your back (no rolling around), and the inside is wood and not particularly comfortable. The only items you're allowed to bring with you are life sustaining medication (e.g. an asthma inhaler). No knocking yourself out with pills or anxiety meds. The money is a briefcase full of cash.
if I can sneak in some sleepy pills I'd do it. fall asleep and wake up two days later really hungry, stinky, sore, and rich as fuck.
if i can't I wouldn't. many people don't realize how dangerous sensory deprivation can be on larger scales than a couple hours. many people try to kill themselves to escape lighter/easier situations than you e described here
I'm visualizing the experience, sitting in a 10'x12' room, and totally unconstrained. Just that makes me feel anxious.
I think that I'd have a mental break in less than a day. Probably in less than a few hours.
I couldn't do it.
As a parent, you had me at "no room to roll around". As long as I have a 100% guarantee that none of my kids will find me in there to ask for something, I'm in. I'm gonna get so much sleep.
So what you're saying is, would I lie in my own waste in the dark for 2 days tops for
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60+ years worth of my current wage? I'll go in right now
I currently don't have a problem with small spaces but I think this would give it to me. I was okay up until the part where I can't roll around. I was imagining it and that would be so uncomfortable to stay in the same position for 48 hours. I think I'll pass. I don't need a million that badly and I don't want PTSD.
Nope. I’d freak out before the first shovelful of dirt hit the coffin lid.
I’m not generally claustrophobic, but that level of confinement would be unbearable.
Are you Mr Beast's content brainstomer or something?
I’d sleep so good. I think this is going to be answered one way by youths and another way by old people who would pay for 48h of peace and quiet.
Man, just trying to imagine it, I wouldn't be able to do it. It's one thing to be confined to a small space, but a small space where you can't roll around? I'd need at least enough room to roll over or stretch out my limbs. Also, I'd have no concept of the passage of time, so it's very likely that I would go insane in there within the span of 48 hours. Sure, you could try and sleep a bit, but after 8-10 hours of that you'd be wide awake and have no idea how much time went by, with 40+ more to go.
I'm sure some people have probably done this for a lot less, though. I'm thinking of stowaways on cargo ships or airplanes who sealed themselves in a crate or something to get somewhere else, but I think in that case they at least had a little more space and hopefully a way to pass the time while voyaging.
Nah. I wouldn't be able to enjoy the money dealing with the ptsd this would likely cause.
Anyone who thinks this is a good deal doesn't know what they're talking about. Experiments involving similar conditions have been done before, and it's never really a pleasant experience. Solitary confinement is fucking tough.
Take this for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKdEhx-dD4 3 days in a small room alone with no real entertainment. Even that had significant effect on Michael's wellbeing.
Keep in mind usually you can still move around and exercise in solitary confinement to keep you relatively sane. In a coffin? Have a look at sensory deprivation tanks. That's the closest thing to this hypothetical situation, and the people who sell the experience recommend you don't spend more than an hour in there.
Risk too high for reward. Maybe with water? Definitely would need an emergency end to the whole thing.
A million bucks wouldn't even cover the average home in my city. No deal.
A quick run to DDG for casket dimensions, along with some poking at my calculator tells me that if you were buried, you and your casket or coffin would have approximately 5,100 kg of soil on top of it. Caskets have thin steel in them, coffins are typically wood. I feel like any dead body containment device one could buy wouldn't be able to hold that weight.
Let me design the coffin and I'd consider it.
Usually I don’t have a problem with narrow spaces, but being unable to move at all is a deal breaker for me. I feel like that would be seriously painful after a few hours, mentally AND physically.
With how shitty my job is, I'd do this in heart beat. Just suffer for 48 hours and I'm well off for the rest of my life. I'll prob still need to work but I could buy a house and all. The just work same shitty job to just pay the bills. Or since I'll have some cushion, I could try and look for other jobs.
Sign me up.
No, I would die of being panic long before being dig up.
I feel like $1 million is more than enough to pay for any therapy necessary to patch up any possible resulting breaks in my psyche with plenty to spare.
I'm pretty sure many years worth of my salary for 48 hours of extreme stress is worth it given parenthood and career already yield moderate to high stress regularly; investing the $1 million well could push up retirement quite a bit.
Plus, let's be real - I get at least some legit rest in there.
Having been in a MRI machine several times, absolutely fucking not. Maybe for 8hrs.
Inb4 this is a MrBeast staff looking for ideas...
No way. Imagine being stuck in complete darkness unable to move your body for that amount of time. I'd lose my mind and probably have a panic attack thinking to myself what if they don't dig me up?. The money isn't worth the mental trauma that would cause me.
No. There's not a thing that exists in the known or unknown universe that could convince me to go through with that.
not for a billion.
Sounds great. I can do several days without food
Never mind the issues with dehydration, I could not be alone with my thoughts for that long.
Gimme a panic button to press in case of emergency, so that I won't die if something happens, and yeah. I would. Prisoners do solitary confinement, and it's awful, and inhumane, but clearly survivable. I have no problem talking to myself and keeping myself company. I routinely spent 8 hours totally alone 5 days a week as a kid, and yes, I realize this isn't the same. But I believe I could keep my mind occupied, and sleep through most of it. This isn't one of those insane ones, where they do it for a year. It's 48 hours. Sign me up.
No. Money is not that important, by far. I'd play you for 10k, holdem or Omaha, anytime, though. Send me location.
nope
Yes as long as I'm certain that I'll get the 1 million dollars after the end. But if allowed by the rules I'd prepare myself some time before being buried. Mostly to make sure that I'm hydrated and fed just enough to endure it, but not enough to shit/piss in the coffin.
Yeah. I could kill a weekend and earn money.
Sounds good to me. I'll have friends and family watch from the outside so I'll be confident it isn't some kind of ruse.
No way.
gg easy
Bury me with my phone or a laptop and I'll do a month
People who are saying no to this cuddos to you having it good. 48 hours of misery discomfort and I’ll be able to get ahead by a lot and make my life a bit better
If it was done at that moment, no. BUT if I KNEW that in advance, I’d could prep myself for that ( and even if I had doubts there’s a MILLION reasons to go thru with it) and some old school perseverance will win the day
Are you forced to eat only asparagus as your last meal before going in?
I think this is a pretty good pitch for a twitch stream, you just need a way to record live footage of the poor person in the coffin.
I would try it and see how I do for that much.
Nice try. I’d like a restraining order now, and stay within my line of sight please.
Pretty sure that would mess me up mentally for life. So probably not.
Can I do it again later if I need another million?
This is probably the worst concept ever for a reality show.
No. Not even dead.
Not even 48 seconds. Just thinking about being buried alive for too long can give me a panic attack. Noping out of this thread now!
Without food, water or even a diaper? Ew... no.
I could do it.
Only 48 hours of suffering to live comfortable the rest of my life?
That's a great deal.
Very much no. I wouldn't last an hour, let alone 48 and if I did I would be fucked up for life.
I wouldn't be buried alive for an hour for a million dollars.
idk, people that would care to get me out now can inherit a million $
Cool. Guess I know what they'll be doing to me in hell
just wait for the medication withdrawal to kick in!
Just 48 hours or a MILLION? Yes. YES. Sign me up! 100%!
ITT: parents using this 48hr torture session to get away from their kids.
Yep, I guess I still don't regret having kids.
