• The woman’s relatives were shocked to discover that she was still alive while preparing her body for the funeral after she had been declared dead by the hospital.
• The woman’s son said that his mother started to move her left hand, open her eyes and struggle to breathe when they opened the coffin.
• Firefighters arrived and lifted the woman from the coffin onto a stretcher and took her back to the same hospital where she had been declared dead.
• The woman’s son said that his mother was responsive and on oxygen in the intensive care unit, and reacted when a doctor pinched her hand.
• The health ministry has opened an investigation into the incident after the woman was issued a death certificate stating she had died of cardiopulmonary arrest following a stroke.
• The article mentions another case in February where an 82-year-old woman was found breathing while lying in a funeral home after being pronounced dead three hours earlier at a nursing home.
It’d be so awkward next time. “I mean… are you sure she’s dead?”
Just watched a Castle episode where a guy refused to die.
Isn’t there something about wakes existing to prevent this sort of thing? I assume it’s apocryphal, but still.
Did you want crippling claustrophobia? Because this is how you develop crippling claustrophobia.
“I don’t want to go on the cart!” - Dead Person, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
No seriously though… seems like every year or two I hear about another story of someone just coming back like this. The human body is totally wild.
