Odd
Man lives in coffin to cure phobia
Published Sunday, Nov 2 2008, 06:26 GMT | By Michael Thornton

Rex Features
Brazillian tourist park operator Freud de Melo suffers from taphephobia - the fear of being buried alive - and has decided to live in a converted coffin in an attempt to ease the condition.
The crypt features a television, a water pitcher, an air vent and tubes which he uses to speak to those outside the contraption.
"I have awful, awful nightmares of trying to dig myself out from underground," said de Melo.
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