vivisepulture

English

Noun

vivisepulture (uncountable)

1. The practice of burying someone alive.
   • April 2003, Journal of British Studies:

     Thus, to characterize the Victorian worry about premature burial as a product of 'morbid romanticism,' or of the 'sheer mythopoeic force' of vivisepulture, is to ignore the deep confusion over human physiology that persisted into the twentieth century.