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.
Risk too high for reward. Maybe with water? Definitely would need an emergency end to the whole thing.
I know how this one went…
Think I’ll pass!
I don’t understand Sadam’s strategy with that hole. Was he planning on living there the rest of his life, or was he thinking the USA would get tired of looking for him and move on?
I have no idea, but I assume it was a last-ditch effort to avoid getting capped. Excellent meme though.
Spider hole!
No, I would die of being panic long before being dig up.
Inb4 this is a MrBeast staff looking for ideas…
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.
I’d do it too. Here I am working my ass off for the next 30 years to save maybe $1m for retirement and someone’s willing to just give it to me after 48hrs of suffering? No brainer. I’d ask questions about the plan to keep it safe of course, but if I was satisfied that they knew what they were doing, I’d do it no question. I’m surprised that most are saying no to this. I mean shit, at least try.
Could I hire a guy and pay him 48 hours of minimum wage to lay in the coffin for me and then collect the million dollars at the end? I think I just invented capitalism.
You mean 48 hours of peace and quite AND I get a million‽ sigh me the fuck up.
That’s what I was thinking. Like, I have kids and a high stress job. This sounds like a vacation.
Some magician tried this at a local children’s theme park when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, he was supposed to escape or something. He miscalculated the weight of the soil and was crushed to death.
48 hours without water? Absolutely not. There is a high probability of exiting a cripple or dead, at least for me. Not to mention my medicine.
Just drink a lot before and you’d be good to go IMO
Edit: at a normal temperature of course.
OP said no diaper, which means you are pissing and shitting yourself, and you’ll be soaking in it at ground temperature, around 55f. Might be a tad uncomfortable, lol.
Unless you are God-tier at holding it…
Then you’d drown in your own urine.
You definitely couldn’t produce enough urine to fill the coffin. You would definitely end up lying in piss but that’s not too bad for a million, plus it may drain out the bottom.
I’ve spent that much time without water without knowing it lol. It’s not a long period of time without water.
You probably ate or drank other stuff with water. The other person didn’t mean “water” specifically, just some means of hydration.
Can I do it again later if I need another million?
If there isn’t enough room to roll around, it’s going to be essentially impossible for a diabetic to administer what they need.
48 hours without water is a no go.
You can go 3 days, especially with no physical exertion
Maybe you can. But the thing about statistics like that it’s that they avoid saying “the average person”, and problems with averages is that half of the people are under it.
If it’s not just made up data in the first place.
The thing is, the average person can survive about 4 days without water under normal circumstances. It would be even longer with no physical exertion, assuming it isn’t too hot and the humidity is right. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the vast majority of healthy adults could survive not drinking for 48 hours if they’re spending that entire 48 hours lying down. The things to worry about here are mental health and infection from waste, not dehydration.
The rule of thumb is “three days without water” because that’s how long most people can go. It’s not the ld50. It wouldn’t be a very popular rule of thumb if it got half of the people who followed it killed.
I’ve lived through severe dehydration. It’s nothing to fuck with.
I mean you lived through it. I can’t afford to get this weird patch of skin on my arm or the bump above my knee checked out, so I might legitimately not live through severe not having money
Risk analysis is different. I was dehydrated thanks to less than 24 hours without hydration and my body was fucked. I’m pretty sure forty eight would kill me. You are pretty sure that shit on your body ain’t right and that you can’t afford to get it checked out, much less treated. You’re risking your life if you do or if you don’t, so might as well go for the money. That said, if it’s serious, a million bucks might not be enough in this glorious healthcare system we’ve got.
Id fuck with it for a million dollars
Very much no. I wouldn’t last an hour, let alone 48 and if I did I would be fucked up for life.
3 days poopless 2.0?
48/24 =/= 3
Ever been to a multi-day music festival?
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.
