$$ During the funeral lightning struck the coffin 6 times! then they heard a scream!

 During the funeral, lightning struck the coffin six times. Then they heard a scream. Coping with the loss of a close friend or family member may be one of the hardest challenges that many of us face. One can only imagine because few people who are buried alive are here to tell about it. It was a terrible practice used on humans before most, but not all became civilized. I've talked with patients in the E.R. who drowned, but their lives were saved, and when they recovered enough to tell us about it, they said that after several breaths of water, which has some oxygen in the water, they said they felt almost peaceful and quit fighting. Assuming nobody realizes you will eventually suffocate through a lack of oxygen, but not before spending many hours contemplating the grisly, claustrophobic terror of knowing that you are living your final moments, trapped in a wooden box in absolute darkness, tremendous discomfort and unbearable loneliness and not a soul will ever know. You will contemplate the macabre irony that clearly someone buried you because they thought you were dead, but you weren't.

And now you're definitely going to die as a direct result of their action. Depending on how long you last, you may piss or shit yourself as you wait the inevitable. So your dying breath will be a stagnating, carbon dioxide filled air, thick with the smell of your own excretions and sweat. If somehow you're able to attract attention and get rescued or the person who buried you was kind of lazy and didn't bury you too deep, don't drop on too much earth or compacted down very well and you managed to kick yourself free. You'll be fine physically, but will likely carry psychological instability with you until the day you really die. Back in the 1800s and earlier, if someone did something that angered someone else, they would be attacked, beaten and sometimes hanged. But the hangings weren't always done correctly, making the person pass out from lack of oxygen but still being alive. They would then dig a shallow grave and throw the body in and bury it. The person would then awake to find themselves buried under loose soil, dig their way out and stumble back home, often dazed and confused.

The people who thought him dead would see him and get scared. This helped spread stories of the dead rising as either zombies or vampires. Then there was also a time where people would fall into comas and seem dead and be buried, only to wake up in coffins and family tombs. It happened so often. They started burying people with bells and other objects that make a lot of noise so that if they woke up, they could try to alert someone. This was before they started embalming corpses. In one of my long sojourns on the Internet, I found a really funny story that sounds bizarre in terms of narration. They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice. But one Colombian man who has been struck four times and then buried alive is living proof. That is, occasionally it does. Alexander Mandan, 20, from a small Colombian village called Sampa, was has been struck by lightning four times since September. Bizarrely, although steeped in some logic, village doctors say the cure to his affliction would be to ground him by burying him neck deep in the earth, they said.

By grounding him, the electrical charge would be stripped away from his body. The Huffington Post said it is the second time Mandan has been buried because the first time he was not put in the correct upright position. Colombian news agency Columbia reports said Mandan had to be discharged from the army because it was believed he was positively charged to attract lightning. The commander of the unit was reportedly concerned by Mandan Electric Charge and decided to avoid the risk of electrocution by firing the soldier. Mandan was sent home to employees in the Northern Square District, where it was thought he could avoid perilous lightning shocks because of low rainfall in the region. But he attracted another lightning bolt. It is unclear whether the second burial was successful, but Mandan was reportedly staying away from windows and doors. Lightning strikes can contain more than 100,000 volts of electricity, while they can cause heart attacks and stroke in victims survival from a strike more likely than death. It is this part of the world. Lightning is associated with the gods. And whenever someone is struck to death by thunder or lightning, it is believed that that person has offended the guards.

Most of the time they're not buried the normal way as they are treated as an outcast, even in death. But this story is about a man that was struck by lightning four times. Whether you consider yourself lucky or unlucky in life, you're inevitably left to. Play the hand of cards you're dealt. But what if your hand included four strikes of lightning? That was indeed the case for Walter Summerfield, who was hit by lightning three separate times and once more after he was laid to rest, according to the National Severe Storms Laboratory. The odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are estimated to be one in 13,000. A bolt of lightning surging through your body can reach up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is roughly five times hotter than the sun's surface. Luckily, the mortality rate from a lightning strike is relatively low, but the majority of survivors are left with profound cardiovascular and neurological complications. Major Walter Summer Bird was a British officer who went to battle in the First World War in 1918, during a time when most soldiers were attempting to dodge bullets.

One soldier was hit with a shocking surprise. Walter was galloping on his horse through a field in Belgium when lightning first struck him. Upon impact, he was flung off of his horse and left paralyzed from the waist down, forced into early retirement. Walter started a new life in Vancouver, Canada. He'd been an avid sportsman and was engaged in many of the wondrous outdoor activities. His new home had to offer. In 1924, Walter set off to fish along the shore of a local river. Little did he know he was resting under the wrong tree at the wrong time without warning. A lightning bolt struck the tree. Walter was under and surged through him, which resulted in the entire right side of his body being paralyzed. Miraculously, he recovered from the second bout of Mother Nature's electric slashing and regained the use of his legs. After two years, he was able to walk and spent the majority of his time doing so on a warm summer day in 1930. Walter decided to take a scenic stroll through a park.

As fate would have it. This would be his last. The soft summer sky drew dark, ominous clouds that rumbled with a sound all too familiar for Walter. For the third time in his life, a lightning bolt charged down from the sky, directly hitting him with so much force that he was completely paralyzed. In an unfortunate two year struggle due to the complications caused by his last lightning accident. Walter passed away in 1932, surrounded by family and friends as they mourned his death. He was laid to rest in the Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver. While one might assume he was finally at peace. Think again. How this accident ends. Tragically, six people have been killed and three others were injured after lightning hit a tree they were sheltering under at a funeral. Freak poor weather began during the service and the group took refuge under a tree to shelter themselves from the pouring rain. But a bolt of lightning came from nowhere and hit the tree, killing six people on the spot, mostly elderly, while the other three were left seriously burnt.

This bizarre incident occurred in the Benga district in the Matabeleland region in southern Zimbabwe. Chief Sage Malaba, who headed the service, said his hut was also hit, but no one was killed or injured in that incident. He said that the six who died were attending his late sister's funeral when the tragic incident occurred. He said there were few houses to gather in when the weather started, which forced other people to seek shelter under the tree, which was then struck by lightning. Chief Social Arbor said that in their culture, they gather for four days after one's death. And tragedy struck on the fourth day. Those suffering burns were rushed to the nearby Benga District Hospital with their injuries, but have since been released back home. Social Arbor Village head Mr. Joe Modiba said that the village was in deep shock following the tragedy. He said We're in deep shock because of what happened in our village. This is one of the darkest moments in the village, an entire district, as I'm speaking right now. All the shops in the village are closed because everyone is grieving.

It's sad that we lost mostly elderly people. A villager, Mr. Bazar and Yali, stepped in to help following the bolt. He said many were left with horrible memories of the accident. There have been so many things that have been hard. It is difficult to pick up just one or two things, but think the worst has been losing my future. Though I was not aware of it, I had built the future in my mind, or at least what I believe my future would look like. I could never have imagined a world without my loved ones in it. Who can we always think they will be in our future and we will build our lives accordingly. We assume family will be a vital part of our life always. But that is often not the case. Losing a loved one is an absolute nightmare, and grief can last a long time. There is no set grief, schedule and. Everyone mourns differently, but eventually it should become less noticeable. If you have recently lost a family member and you're still hurting, that's normal.

I'm sure for some it can take years for the grief to become less apparent. If it has been a long time since you have lost a family member and you still think of them often that's normal. It's hard to live our lives without people we've cared so much about. So is it normal to think of them often and be sad when you do? In a way, yes. But hopefully with time the sadness will lessen and they will just be a passing thought. If you're still full of tremendous grief after a few years, that may inhibit your ability to do things. Then I would suggest a counselor. They can work wonders on helping you sort out your emotions. For all of these reasons, it has become quite uncommon for a person's declared dead to suddenly return to life. Thus, the custom of holding a wake has become ceremonial only because the survivors are sitting with a bloodless and congealed corpse, or with a body that has been partially dismembered and thereafter involved. All grieving processes are unique and very individual.

No one experiences the same grief. Therefore, no one can tell how to grieve. It's personal. Some say the measure of grief is the measure of the love we had for the person who died. But of course, it is not as simple as that. Relationships are complicated. The grieving process is not a linear process. You might feel better in a year or two, then something happens that sets you right back. It's normal. What is the hardest part in dealing with the loss of a parent? I think it depends on so many things like how old the bereaved is, what circumstances the parent's death occurred, and more.