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?)