"I'm not dead!"
"I'm sure she will be soon, she's very ill."
I'm guessing they just had an extremely weak pulse? I worry that hospitals will start cudgeling patients to make sure! Although I think I'd prefer that to waking up in a buried coffin...
I've thought of that, but hey, if I'm unconscious enough that you think I'm dead, I probably won't mind the burning either, and at least I won't be waking up.
For those who skip reading articles: This happened in Babahoyo, Ecuador. The woman was declared dead and immediately placed into a casket. The family arrives hours later to dress her in funeral attire and find her breathing.
Aren't bodies usually embalmed before funerals? In this case it's a good thing she wasn't, but usually it helps avoid the whole being buried alive problem.
14 Comments
florge@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
Doesn't sound reassuring.
DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Imagine if she gets declared dead in the same hospital twice
Iballl@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
"I'm not dead!"
"I'm sure she will be soon, she's very ill."
I'm guessing they just had an extremely weak pulse? I worry that hospitals will start cudgeling patients to make sure! Although I think I'd prefer that to waking up in a buried coffin...
Perhaps we should bring back safety coffins?
xTechDeath@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
I’m just going to get a tv installed in mine
Badass_panda@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Well that sounds like a shitty experience for sure
JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Elrundir@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
This is exactly why I want to be cremated.
JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Light a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night.
Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Prachett.
JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Elrundir@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I've thought of that, but hey, if I'm unconscious enough that you think I'm dead, I probably won't mind the burning either, and at least I won't be waking up.
JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
KilgoreTrout@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y
It would be even stranger if she was found breathing in a coffin at someone else’s funeral.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Do they not embalm bodies?
Ghil@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
...that's going to insure i have fresh new nightmare fuel for a while. My god.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
For those who skip reading articles: This happened in Babahoyo, Ecuador. The woman was declared dead and immediately placed into a casket. The family arrives hours later to dress her in funeral attire and find her breathing.
Josephine@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Great! That's a sentence I never wanna read ever again
Robert7301201@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Aren't bodies usually embalmed before funerals? In this case it's a good thing she wasn't, but usually it helps avoid the whole being buried alive problem.