a window for a corpse

yeah, there are probably other reasons to visit Vermont, but this one works for me!

Before he died on Halloween, 1893, physician Timothy Clark Smith made very special arrangements that he was entombed without a pulse. During his life Smith suffered from severe taphephobia, or fear of being buried alive; he was so plagued by his phobia that he had a window constructed above his grave that allowed one to look down upon the corpse’s face. The idea was for one to look down and ensure that Smith was sleeping the deep sleep and not living out his greatest fear. But that wasn’t enough for Smith, who also had a bell placed atop the grave with a string around his finger, so that he may pull it and alert someone if he was prematurely buried. A final addition was a set of stairs leading directly out of the tomb. Ok, the last two might just be legends, but the window still exists in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, VT. Although the glass is now too scratched and foggy to see all the way down, many visitors have claimed to have peered into the window and found the skeletal face of Timothy Clark Smith gazing back at them.

you know, I really don't want to be buried. but if I have to be buried.....this is what I want. in an old abandoned cemetery. for reals.