Death+the+problems+with

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey.

The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. People walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days The family would gather around and eat and drink, and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "**// Wake. //**"

Englandis small, and they started running out of places to bury people. They would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "**// Bone-House //**" and reuse the grave.

When reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins was found to have scratch marks on the inside, and they realized they had been burying people alive.

So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (The "**// Graveyard Shift //**") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "**// Saved By The Bell //**" or was considered a "**// Dead Ringer //**."