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Country Bill White

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for 49 days, breaking O'Dell's record. By 1966, he was touring as "The Human Corpse" or "The Living Corpse", releasing a few tie-in country LPs as well. On June 9, 1966, he married Lottie White who also volunteered to be buried alive, billing herself as "Mrs. Living Corpse." The couple divorced in
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entirely as he was buried for 134 days, 2 hours, and 55 minutes during it. In 1981, after being voluntarily buried for 140 days, he vowed to never allow himself to be buried again. White's records were held by the
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White was born in the Florida panhandle. He met burial artist Herbert "Digger" O'Dell Smith in 1964 and decided to attempt to endure voluntary burial himself. He was buried at Christie's Beachcomber in
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who gained notoriety as the "living corpse" and was voluntarily buried alive as a publicity stunt throughout the 1960sā€“1980s.
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1968. White married 7 times in his lifetime. In April 1968, he was buried for 62 days, besting Irish burial artist
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until 1987 at which time they stopped covering burial artists out of safety. He died on December 21, 2006.
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burial artist
Galveston
Michael "Mick" Meaney
Blizzard of 1978
Guinness Book of World Records


"Bill White: Down for the Count (Dracula) | Hometown by Handlebar"
https://www.45cat.com/record/nc814763us
"Mrs. Living Corpse"
"'The Coffin Man': Michael "Mick" Meaney, Who Volunteered to Be Buried Alive for 61 Days"
"North London builder who spent 2 months in a coffin buried underground"
"Buried alive, he missed the '78 blizzard"
Greenfield Recorder
"'Country' Bill White, vowing never again to bury himself... - UPI Archives"
"This Fort Worth man spent more than two years buried alive. And found love along the way"
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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