Thank you. I missed that when I checked Wikipedia earlier.
Wikipedia is known to have inaccuracies at times and it's surprisingly hard to find good sources on this subject. FWIW, Snopes disagrees in this fascinating piece about known cases of people being buried alive:
The practice of ‘waking’ the dead (having someone sit with the deceased from the time of death until burial in case he ‘wakes up’) began out of this concern.
Wikipedia is known to have inaccuracies at times and it's surprisingly hard to find good sources on this subject. FWIW, Snopes disagrees in this fascinating piece about known cases of people being buried alive:
The practice of ‘waking’ the dead (having someone sit with the deceased from the time of death until burial in case he ‘wakes up’) began out of this concern.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/just-dying-to-get-out/