'Dead' Woman Found Breathing In Coffin At Own Funeral

BBC ^ | June 12, 2023 | Laura Gozzi

[Kenny Bania]

Creepy.

[MNnice]

That’s why we have laws requiring embalming in this country ... to make sure you’re dead when they bury you.

[Leaning Right]

What’s the big deal? That happened to Biden twice in just the last month.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Exactly. This crap happens all the time in third world countries.

[ought-six]

That reminded me of an old Hitchcock TV episode called “Breakdown.” Very eerie.

[Paal Gulli]

Elderly Ecuadoran Woman Wakes in Coffin at Her Own Wake

06/12/2023 4:14:35 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 32 replies
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[Songcraft]

Probably less smoky in there.

[Revel]

The security coffin designed by Dr Johann Gottfried Taberger in 1829 alerted a cemetery night watchman by a bell which was activated by a rope connected to strings attached to the hands, feet and head of the ‘corpse’. The bell housing prevented the alarm from sounding by wind or birds landing on it.

This phrase supposedly dates back to a time when people were at risk of being buried alive. To keep from waking up inside a coffin (and then really dying), loved ones were buried with bell ropes so they could ring the bell if they woke up. Once someone heard them, they were dug up and thus “saved by the bell.”

[libh8er]

“The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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[MeganC]

“I’m not dead yet!”

[TexasGator]

“That’s why we have laws requiring embalming in this country”

Cute, but fake.

[Migraine]

Well, it wasn’t actually at the funeral; but still — (bada-bing) everyone was mortified.

[VictoryGal]

sorry, this is all I could think of.

[right way right]

That’s Why it’s called a wake.

[Songcraft]

:-)


(She probably thought she was Lazarus.)

[the OlLine Rebel]

Exactly.

Making sure you’re not still alive.

[gundog]

She was the life of the party....

[healy61]

We have an Irish wake table. About 7 feet long and 6 feet wide when the leaves are put up making an oval dining table for other times. Oak, and very heavy.

[Beowulf9]

I hope she gets better. Gee her poor son.