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Nightmare fuel for sure.
Perhaps the most terrifying headline I've read in a while.
The topic of many 18th-19th century patents.
And horror stories like berenice by the great edgar allan poe.
A wake was to listen for bells:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin

The linked Wikipedia article (although interesting) doesn't seem to mention wakes, and the Wikipedia page on wakes [1] claims that this idea is a misconception.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_(ceremony)

Yes, it wasn't started to listen for this situation, it's just funny to me that there were extremely rare occurrences where people did wake up...
No quality controls at coffin manufacturers. /s
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I suspect this kind of occurrence, while being an exceedingly rare occurrence, is yet far more common than what we dare to imagine.