A woman who was announced dead at a hospital horrifyingly ‘came back to life’ en route to her own funeral.
After taking a turn for the worse, the woman was found to have died and was moved from the mortuary to the funeral parlour in preparation for her interment.
But staff were reportedly horrified when they found that the elderly woman had a pulse. Compounding their alarm, she is said to have moved her fingers.
After confirming her survival, paramedics at the Son Valenti funeral parlour in Palma, Majorca, hurried her back to Juan March de Bunyola Hospital in the city. Her condition is unknown at this time.
An internal inquiry is now underway to determine what led to the false declaration of her demise. The incident follows a similar case in February last year, when morgue employees were left spooked as a woman returned from the dead, moving inside a body bag.
The unidentified patient was pronounced dead after exhibiting symptoms of severe starvation and showing no signs of brain or respiratory function. But she abruptly started to stir after spending five hours in a body bag at Guatemala’s San Juan de Dios General Hospital.
Morgue workers were left in shock as they rushed to alert doctors after a woman was found alive, leading to her readmission to the emergency room. Despite their best efforts to resuscitate her, she showed no vital signs and was declared dead for the second time.
When a lady was discovered alive, mortuary staff were shocked and hurried to notify doctors, which resulted in her being readmitted to the emergency room. She failed to display any vital signs and was pronounced dead for the second time, despite their best attempts to revive her.
The hospital extended their support to her grieving family during this “difficult time they are facing”. It remained unclear whether authorities investigated the incident.
A hospital spokesperson said the young woman had first arrived in a “precarious condition.”
She had shown signs of “severe malnutrition” and had a medical history of seizures and cerebral palsy. The spokesman added: “After 30 minutes of medical efforts, she was declared deceased and her body was transferred to the morgue as part of established protocol.”
In a similar case last year, a Texas teenager named Sammy Berko, 16 suffered a cardiac arrest at a rock climbing gym and was pronounced dead. However, he was revived two hours later following continued CPR, leading one of his doctors to hail him as a “literal miracle”.
Sammy’s mum Jennifer said at the time: “He climbed to the top of the wall, rang the bell, as we were told, and then his body went limp, and it looked like he was either playing around or passed out. They weren’t quite sure and when they realised he was unresponsive, they lowered him slowly.”
The heartbroken parents were given a personal moment to say goodbye to their darling son – having already lost his sibling Frankie three years earlier.
Jennifer said: “I started talking to him, just telling him how much I love him and sorry that we didn’t know how to save him. Suddenly, as I started praying, my husband said, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s moving’.”
In another startling incident from June last year, Bella Montoya Castro, 76, was reported dead at a hospital in southwest Quito, Ecuador. However, she woke up during her funeral hours afterwards.
Her son Gilber Barberan said that friends setting flowers on the coffin heard noises coming from inside the casket, realising it was Bella making the sounds.
Perhaps we should start putting a bell in the coffin and get someone to sit at night to do the ‘graveyard shift.’
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