Posted on 06/12/2023 6:51:17 PM PDT by Kenny Bania
Mourners at the funeral of an elderly Ecuadorian woman were startled to discover she was still alive.
Bella Montoya, 76, was declared dead last week following a suspected stroke.
Five hours into her wake on Friday, relatives preparing to change her clothes ahead of the burial found her gasping for air.
Ms Montoya is now back in hospital in intensive care, and Ecuador's health ministry has set up a committee to investigate the incident.
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That’s why we have laws requiring embalming in this country ... to make sure you’re dead when they bury you.
Exactly. This crap happens all the time in third world countries.
That reminded me of an old Hitchcock TV episode called “Breakdown.” Very eerie.
06/12/2023 4:14:35 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 32 replies
The Tico Times ^
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4160387/posts
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.”
“The Premature Burial” by Edgar Allan Poe
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“I’m not dead yet!”
“That’s why we have laws requiring embalming in this country”
Cute, but fake.
Well, it wasn’t actually at the funeral; but still — (bada-bing) everyone was mortified.
That’s Why it’s called a wake.
Exactly.
Making sure you’re not still alive.
She was the life of the party....
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.
I hope she gets better. Gee her poor son.
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