Posted on 06/12/2023 4:14:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An elderly Ecuadoran woman who woke up inside a coffin at her own wake is being treated at the same state hospital that declared her dead two days earlier, her son said on Sunday.
A video posted on Twitter shows Bella Montoya, 76, in her open coffin breathing heavily while two men assist her.
Her son, Gilbert Balberán, said “she was hitting the box” with her left hand after the five-hour wake. Balberán had to arrange for the donation of a coffin for the impoverished family after the Martin Icaza public hospital, in the coastal town of Babahoyo, declared Montoya dead on Friday.
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Guess it’s called a wake for a reason.
That’s why you have a wake...to make sure the person is dead!
Go wake, go break
That’ll show the b@#$@#s. WTGG
She was only mostly dead.
‘Well excuuuuuuuse me!”
Is he going to return it or save it for next time?
“You’re not fooling anyone, you know!”
That’s horrible!
What kind of physician makes this mistake!
Is there a market for slightly used coffins ?
“I think I’ll go for a walk.”
Now that’s woke!
Vivisepulture ping!
This is exactly why my mother insists that we embalm her.
Does everybody here know this about George Washington?
George Washington’s Taphophobia: The Fear of Being Buried Alive
OCTOBER 31, 2018 / FERRYFARMANDKENMORE
On December 14, 1799, as George Washington lay in his final moments on his death bed, he told his secretary Tobias Lear what were likely his last words. Tobias recalled later:
“About ten o’clk he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it, at length he said,–‘I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.’ I bowed assent, for I could not speak. He then looked at me again and said, ‘Do you understand me?’ I replied Yes. ‘Tis well’ said he”.
From Lives & Legacies:
Stories from Historic Kenmore and George Washington’s Ferry Farm.
Many people were afraid of this as it was not unheard of to wake up due to poor medical diagnostic techniques.
“Is there a market for slightly used coffins ?”
That’s the coffin everyone wants!
“Our coffins are so good they wake up the dead”
I’m not dead yet!
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