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* Escape or Die: This form of escape performance was originated by Houdini and is the standard for top of the line escape artists.

Death by drowning, as in water escapes pioneered by Houdini ; Death by falling ; as a straitjacket escape hanging from a burning rope hundreds of feet in the air, as created by UK escape artist Alan Alan and in the US by Dorothy Dietrich ; Buried Alive, as done by Dean Gunnarson and others ; being Burned Alive or suffocated in the Chrysalis Escape both performed by Roslyn Walker.

Steve Santini is a master of this kind of extreme escape and has been named the World's Most Extreme Escape Artist by Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

This type of escapology does go wrong and has resulted in escape artists losing their lives.

Both the buried alive stunt and the Chrysalis escape have claimed lives in recent times.