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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hannah Beswick (1688 – February 1758), of Birchin Bower, Hollinwood, Oldham, England, was a wealthy woman who had a pathological fear of premature burial. Following her death in 1758 her body was embalmed and kept above ground, to be periodically checked for signs of life.