Not dead yet! Woman bangs on coffin at wake [video]

NBC Chicago ^ | 6/13/2023 | Staff

[simpson96]

A woman who was declared dead after suffering a suspected stroke and cardiac arrest shocked those at her wake when she started making noise from her coffin.

Not dead yet! Woman bangs on coffin at wake

[SamAdams76]

I always doubt these stories because don’t they drain the blood and fill with embalming fluid?

[libh8er]

[dayglored]

“I don’t want to go on the cart!”

[DannyTN]

"I always doubt these stories because don’t they drain the blood and fill with embalming fluid?"

Hard to believe, but I can believe a Chicago embalmer didn't do his job.

[rightwingcrazy]

[NorthMountain]

I find that these stories always come from some Third-world country, where maybe they DON’T embalm ...

This one is from Ecuador.

[Ezekiel]

Maybe a 'wake' is supposed to be a last call.

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Such an inspiration!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I always doubt these stories because don't they drain the blood and fill with embalming fluid?

Only in wealthy areas of the world.

This was in Ecuador.

They stick you in a box, have a wake and you are buried inside of 72 hours.

[lee martell]

That is where the phrase Saved By The Bell comes from.

[frank ballenger]

Exactly. You’re right. It’s not the 1700s-1800s.

One way they tried to solve the mystery of the great blues artist Robert Johnson’s death was to estimate which of the versions would comply with a nearby burial before the dead body would stink and decompose——before refrigeration and embalming methods later one.

George Washington told the last person to hear him that he wanted him to make doubly sure he was dead. They say Washington was very focused on his “taphophobia: the fear of being buried alive.”

[frank ballenger]

“The reports of my death were greatly exaggerated.”

[Montana_Sam]

Embalming isn’t required in some places if the body is buried within 48 (or 72?) hours of death. I knew of a doctor who died and his family buried him two days later in a coffin the doctor had constructed many years before.

[cyclotic]

Embalming isn’t always done. I knew a guy who died of a drug overdose a few years ago. Being an addict, he didn’t have any money, neither did his mother. She took the option of having an open casket with absolutely zero body prep. I heard it was pretty gruesome.

[Clay Moore]

“You’re not fooling anyone, you know.”

[dfwgator]

“I feel happy! I feel happy!”

[TribalPrincess2U]

I thought they did.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[jjotto]

The woman died finally about a week later.

[Secret Agent Man]

Given what George went through medically in his life, its understandable.