Posted on 01/13/2023 4:38:40 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland
The staff at a central Iowa funeral home was surprised when a woman who was believed to be dead, turned out to be alive."
(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...
except to our lawyers
Well, somebody had to post it.
She was a sound sleeper.
This is why you have a wake.
How long was the wake James Brown? Months? Had to make sure he was really dead.
“Due to HIPAA laws...” we can’t confirm whether she is alive now.
In 1896 T.M. Montgomery, who was supervising the disinterment of remains at the Fort Randall Cemetery, reported that a little over 2% of those bodies exhumed were definitely victims of being accidentally buried alive. In other words, about 2% woke up, tried to claw their way out, and were unable to do so. Given the oxygen supply in a coffin doesn’t last that long, it is likely the actual percentage of people buried alive was higher, when you include the ones who didn’t wake, but were still technically alive when buried.
In any event, to prevent deaths by burial, a string would supposedly be attached to the finger of the person presumed dead, and it was attached to a bell on the other end above ground. When the person moved, the bell would ring. And that was what you would call a “dead ringer.”
I‘ve seen this movie.
After.Life with Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci.
Son (who works for a funeral home) said “they have ways to assure people are dead”. I didn’t want the details. Just asked him to make sure I was dead in the end. 😬
I remember reading stories about ‘casket bells’ in the old days.
“She comes from a family of deep sleepers”
“She was faking it…she always did”
“Anything to avoid a cocktail party”
“She just wanted to be left alone”
“Anything to avoid cleaning the kitchen”
“They put me in the wrong outfit”
“My hair looked terrible”
Frankly…I can see all these
“The crew determined the patient was not in cardiac arrest, and they began to treat the patient before they were taken to a hospital.”
https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-funeral-home-woman-alive/42487160
Treat them for what?
wy69
THAT is the stuff of nightmares right there!
‘Bring Out Your Dead’ *PING* :)
One wonders how many layers of people and procedure were breached for the care center to send her to a funeral home.
That faker Ellen G. White had a phone installed in her coffin . . . just in case she woke up. She din’t.
I’ve previously heard of such in third-world countries. It’s only in the past year or so that I’ve heard of such mistakes in the U.S. I suspect it is because we are importing medical staff from third-world countries.
When I worked in Funeral Service, we always brought them to a doctor to be Pronounced. Never had any of this idiotic legal nonsense.
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