Brit ready to spend 6 months in coffin -- for mum
LONDON (AP) -- A British man says he plans to spend six months buried in his local pub's garden as a tribute to his dead mother.
Geoff Smith, 37, is scheduled to descend Saturday into a coffin-shaped box buried near the Railway Inn pub in Mansfield, north England. He says he hopes to stay in the coffin for 180 days -- long enough to beat the world record-holder.
Item update from gravedigger Rosedale: "...Smith who had himself buried alive to break the world record for such. The item didn't mention that Smith successfully broke the record and came out a few days later. He'd been planning to stay under for a couple of weeks after he'd broken the record but skipped it. He also said he wouldn't do it again. "