We’ve sent how many billions over there and they can’t tell if someone’s alive or dead?
Hell... I can do that and have no medical training.
Well, I’ve told this story at least one time here.
My Grandma was declared “dead”...the family was called to come over (so that we could take my 95 year old Grandpa down to see her one last time before she went to the funeral home).
They even propped her up in the bed nicely (it was in a nursing facility attached to a hospital...yes a hospital) so that she would look nice when Grandpa came to say his goodbyes.
I was charged with calling all of the out-of-state cousins; which I did...everyone was very upset.
Thankfully, Dad went to look in on her before he went to break the news to Grandpa. I’m told there was quite a scene at the nurses’ station when he saw that she was breathing. Then, I got to call everyone back (an hour later and about 11:00 PM by this time)...”Guess what...Grandma’s not really dead!” She lived for a few more months after that; I don’t think anyone told her that she had “died.”