"He is The ONE! He is The One!"
Posted on 09/27/2014 3:13:36 PM PDT by Scoutmaster
A cemetery worker got the fright of his life when he heard a woman screaming from inside her buried coffin.
The man told police he could hear muffled shouts and banging coming from the plot of a 49-year-old woman who had been pronounced dead and buried that day.
Workers and cemetery visitors frantically dug up the coffin and smashed it open, however they were too late and the woman had died.
Police visited the Peraia cemetery near Thessaloniki in Greece, however a doctor who examined her body at the scene claimed she had been dead for hours and could not have possibly been buried alive due to her advanced state of rigor mortis.
The doctor, Chrissi Matsikoudi told Greek television channel MEGA: ‘We did several tests including one for heart failure on the body.’
A coroner will be carrying out a separate examination on the body.
Police say the woman, a mother of two who suffered from cancer, cannot be named until the post mortem is carried out.
Relatives of the woman say they are considering filing a complaint against the doctors who first pronounced her dead.
Evidently she was lying when she was screaming "I'm alive". Being in Greece she may have been accidently buried with a bottle of Windex.
That’s what I remembered. Thanks! :)
Some attribute the expression, “saved by the bell”, to that old custom.
Thanks for taking the suspense out of what my nightmares will be tonight.
If you’re embalmed properly, then you’ve rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
Yeah. And they’d have people waiting in the cemetery to listen for bells. That’s apparently the origin of the phrase, “Graveyard shift”.
Bad way to go. Not the surrounded by family experience most hope for.
How horrible
In modern cultures like the US, we embalm the living!
And then, they aren’t.
Schizophrenia? Watched one too many Hitchcock shorts?
Ted Kennedy was embalmed for years before he died.
I would think that "saved by the bell" is from boxing.
That would be a funeral memory of a life time.
Sitting there in a chair and screaming comes out of the casket.
Woo Hoo!
I doubled checked. I was wrong (and you may well be correct). I found this:
“Folk etymology has suggested that the phrases “saved by the bell”, “dead ringer” and “graveyard shift” come from the use of safety coffins in the Victorian era; however, these have been dispelled as urban myth, .........”
cell phone battery must have been dead
Yep ... better to be killed by embalming than to be buried alive. I doubt many living people are alive when they are embalmed anyway. another choice is cremation. then you can be burned alive. choices. choices
"He is The ONE! He is The One!"
I guess we need to bury people with their cell phones.
Clever...you that often on coffin?
I usually have a scotch or two before anything.
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