Definition of "taphephobia" []

• The fear of being buried alive. (noun)

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• "Mr. de Melo, a resort operator and politician, built a burial vault he could survive in because he's gripped by a rare condition called taphephobia, the fear of being buried alive."
• "A Brazilian man named Freud de Melo suffers from taphephobia, the fear of being buried alive, so he built himself a special crypt."
• "Freud de Melo Given the low probability of live burial nowadays, cases of taphephobia are "pretty darn rare," says psychologist Jonathan S. Abramowitz, director of the Anxiety and S.ress Disorders Clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."