Miss. man wakes up in body bag at funeral home

WFLA ^ | 02-28-2014 | AP

[PaulCruz2016]

LEXINGTON, Miss. - Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams' home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.

Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.

[Monkey Face]

I have claustrophobia, so imagining this was almost traumatic. *shudder-shudder*

[Tupelo]

But wait. Just hold on there a minute.
The story states that Mr Williams was “pronounced dead”. We assume this was done by a doctor or the county coroner. Can a lowly funeral home embalmer over rule either of these highly educated officials? I think not.

[no-to-illegals]

It’s the power of wemen. Doctors and coroners fear the wemens too, if the doctors or coroners are men. They ain’t stupid.

[null and void]

Proof that ya gotta watch the quiet ones...

[moose07]

am still upset you get time off for good behavior ...
It's in the contract...(P.P.P.P.P.P) :)

I have to sneak mine.
...Come the Revolution...

[cva66snipe]

This is why the traditional “wake” was once held. My grandfather’s body was placed on the kitchen table and a multi-day party commenced

My Great Grandfather was a doctor up into the late 1930's. He told his wife when he passed to leave him alone in the house and come back in a day or so to have the undertaker get him. Yes he was afraid of being mistaken for dead.

Today EMT's sending an EKG strip to a doctor or a nurse checking vital signs and pupils can pronounced someone clinically and legally dead.

[no-to-illegals]

I knew I should have asked for prenuptial.

[Scoutmaster]

Sooooooo close.

We almost had our third vivisepulture thread of the year.

[Altariel]

For the last time, I wasn’t responsible!

No one saw me and you can’t prove anything, besides.

[Darksheare]

“They took my eyes!”

No they haven’t, they’re still in your head.

“I can’t see!”

Put down your coffee mug.

“I need the coffee to LIIIIIVE!”

[no-to-illegals]

Am really worried now ... Darks, you did ask a prenuptial?

[Darksheare]

Okay, coffin I might have to cop to.
Maybe.

[Darksheare]

It was almost a scene from the webcomic “Zombie Roomie”.

[Darksheare]

Almost, he woke up though.

[Darksheare]

Prenup: Soul, in one chalcedony jar. Eternal servitude in the evergloom, and the coffee better be hot..

[no-to-illegals]

I hope mine has ice! The coffee! I’ll know I’m in the right place, that way. Hot could mean anything.

[GeronL]

lol

[Just mythoughts]

.... both my sister thought I was crazy

They are in good company.

[glock rocks]

I deny ever waking up in a body bag.

Oh sure, and McGee denies sleeping in the coffin at Abbie's.

[glock rocks]

Okay, coffin I might have to cop to

AHA!