Posted on 05/12/2012 7:32:54 AM PDT by Former Fetus
The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.
Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.
His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed his body and prepared him for burial Friday evening.
A doctor sent to sign the death certificate found it strange that his body was warm. At closer observation she discovered he was still alive.
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Dying is easy.
Comedy is hard.
That poor guy having an MI at such a young age...I wonder
what the future holds for that guy...like if he has
hypoxic brain damage, or severely compromised heart function.
Very sad medical milieu he existed in...I mean the doctor
comes to pronounce him dead, but notices he is still warm...
uh, duh....didn’t the family notice anything?
That used to happen a few centuries back in civilized countries. :’)
He might be the first Zombie of the pandemic; DON’T LET HIM BITE YOU!
Don’t worry - the Mossad undercover sharks have my back.
When a person was buried there was a cord to pull if they were still alive, which rang a bell over the grave so they could be rescued. Something like that I read somewhere.
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