Killed by falling tombstone

Mon Dieu!

Something like the English phrase "dig your own grave"?

The French phrase for a tombstone is "pierre tombale", which at first glance to a non-native French speaker looks like "fallen stone". The original French report may have been using that as a pun, since tombale looks like a form of the verb "tomber" meaning "to fall".

I wonder if anyone considered just throwing more dirt on him rather than digging him out and reburying him a few days later.

That is horrible! The poor guy. It sounds like something from the show 'A Thousand Ways To Die'.

My Mom used to take a shortcut through a local cemetery walking home from work. One evening she fell into an open grave. She broke her ankle but it was the guy who found her who nearly died when he heard, "Could you help me out of here, please?"

My friend and our dates were driving home from the drive-in movies. The second feature had been a horror. We took a detour past a cemetery to see if the "ghost light" was roaming this night. (It was a bronze plaque that caught the cars headlights.) After we explained, the girls wanted to see it. My friend was leading the way in the pale moonlight when he let out a scream and vanished.

Yeah, he had fallen into a just dug grave.

As a young man many years ago I was on the road in Europe and on a very tight budget. I discovered that I could find soft grass, a quiet place and no one else in cemeteries. A good place to put down a sleeping bag for a solid undisturbed nights sleep. If the weather got bad there was often a small chapel to sleep in. These days one might have to watch out for zombies and the like...