• 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.
“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.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/outcry-in-shanghai-as-person-declared-dead-and-put-in-body-bag-found-to-be-alive