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'Dead' man shocks family by asking for a drink
The Sunday Times ^ | January 26, 2003 | Bruce Johnston

Posted on 01/25/2003 4:43:32 PM PST by MadIvan

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I guess he was only stunned.

Regards, Ivan

1 posted on 01/25/2003 4:43:32 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: Cautor; GOP_Lady; prairiebreeze; veronica; SunnyUsa; Delmarksman; Sparta; ...
Bump!
2 posted on 01/25/2003 4:43:49 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
I grew up in the South where I recall people used to "sit up with the dead" for several days.

I never knew why. Maybe it was in case the dead woke up like this guy did.

3 posted on 01/25/2003 4:47:18 PM PST by FReepaholic
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Yep, that's why it's called a "wake"

freegards...
4 posted on 01/25/2003 4:48:35 PM PST by AK2KX
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To: MadIvan
My God. Don't they practice embalming in Italy? Do they just throw bodies into the ground? This is hard to believe.
5 posted on 01/25/2003 4:49:40 PM PST by sd-joe
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To: MadIvan
I am reminded of the story of a man who was at his wife's funeral. As the pall bearers were carrying the casket out of the church, they bumped it against a support beam. Suddenly, there was a knocking sound emanating from the coffin. They opened it up and found the woman very much alive. She lived for another 12 years, but finally expired. Once again, the funeral was held, at the very same same church. As the pall bearers carried out the casket, the husband warned them,
"Watch out for that beam."
6 posted on 01/25/2003 4:50:17 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: MadIvan
It's a good thing he wasn't an organ donor.
7 posted on 01/25/2003 4:55:22 PM PST by dixiechick2000 (Maybe the hokey pokey IS what it's all about...)
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To: MadIvan
Eeee's jus' sleeping!

No e's not!

8 posted on 01/25/2003 4:57:03 PM PST by Republic of Texas
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He's pinin' for the fjords!
9 posted on 01/25/2003 5:02:02 PM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore)
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He's pinin' for the fjords!

Now what kind of talk is that. How come he fell flat on his back the moment I got him home? ;)

Regards, Ivan

10 posted on 01/25/2003 5:03:09 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
In an effort to spare the grieving family members the usual red tape that follows deaths in Italian hospitals, doctors arranged for Mr De Simone - whose heart was still beating - to be discharged as if he were still alive. He was sent home in an ambulance.

There, his body was laid out on a bed, the undertaker was sent for and his Sunday best was being readied to dress him for his coffin.

They were going to bury him with his heart still beating? Weird.

11 posted on 01/25/2003 5:03:16 PM PST by Amelia (Who's sending missile parts to Iraq?)
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To: MadIvan
Or maybe he was just pining for the fjords.
12 posted on 01/25/2003 5:03:48 PM PST by PaulJ
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To: MadIvan
During the Victorian era when death reached the heights of being the "in" thing, people were so afraid of being buried alive, because it happened, they rigged their coffins with bells that rang above ground to notify the mourners of life below ground. It became the "in" thing when Albert, Queen Victoria's Consort, died and left her to a life of perpetual mourning. Monuments became positively necessary and vied with each other for grandeur and status. The Queen was petrified that Albert was really alive after burial and the fear caught on. It became fashionable to provide an out. Victorians were obsessed with death and the fear of death.
13 posted on 01/25/2003 5:10:07 PM PST by wingnuts'nbolts
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Is that how the term "dead ringer" came about?
14 posted on 01/25/2003 5:12:44 PM PST by Mr. Mulliner (I could be a really good Christian if other people didn't mess me up all the time. - Adrian Plass)
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"Brain death" is NOT the same thing as death. It's a convenient fiction, so hospitals can clear out inconvenient people or harvest their organs. The body doesn't really die until the heart stops beating and the cells die and cool.

This guy is very lucky to have undergone "brain death" in an Italian hospital, where they let him go home to die in peace and at less expense to the family.
15 posted on 01/25/2003 5:35:36 PM PST by Cicero
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I wonder what people would say if he had laid in the street for three days and then rose up.
16 posted on 01/25/2003 5:41:36 PM PST by Cvengr
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To: MadIvan
This is a totally credible story and it's great. Prayer is powerful. AMEN!
17 posted on 01/25/2003 5:43:02 PM PST by Cindy
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"Prevent burial of the living: Embalm!"
18 posted on 01/25/2003 5:44:01 PM PST by eccentric
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Dr Kevorkian will be paying this guy a visit, I'm sure...
Where is Dr. Death these days, anyway?
19 posted on 01/25/2003 5:45:09 PM PST by FBD
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My God. Don't they practice embalming in Italy? Do they just throw bodies into the ground?

Tourist enjoying a visit to the catacombs of Palermo.

20 posted on 01/25/2003 5:46:45 PM PST by Thinkin' Gal
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