False, they were buried seated.
no
Popes are not buried standing up. They are buried in the normal position.
Ben Jonson requested to be buried upright because he wanted to be ready to rise and face judgment on the Day of Resurrection. It was a common belief during that time that bodies buried upright would be the first to rise on Judgment Day.
Fear of standing or walking upright
Standing Case
Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia
No
I believe the story is that he was buried in an upright position, not that he remained standing when he died. <<-- In response: The legend is definitely that he died standing up. I just happened to have caught the end of a Nostradamus special on the History channel and they stated twice that he had been found standing up, and that was the reason for his original upright burial. However, other than the History channel, I cannot find any legitimate sources to back it up. I pose the same question then: Did Nostradamus really die standing up?
To keep the house upright and standing.
Upright.
Lord Byron is the only poet buried standing up in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.
It means something is standing "upright."