'Dead' Man Revives After Night in Morgue

Reuters ^ | Fri, Aug 22, 2003

[presidio9]

An elderly Vietnamese man thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue, state media and a doctor said on Friday.

Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of August 15 but was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral, the Vietnam News daily said.

"I was shocked and frightened when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving," Quan's daughter was quoted as saying. "When the morgue's officials pulled back the blanket, my father's eyes moved, brightening with joy."

A doctor at the Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital, where Quan had been admitted after complaining of chest pain, told Reuters: "He is now still in the emergency section."

After Quan's heart failed and he was declared dead, the man was placed in the morgue where he was laid for seven hours among corpses.

The doctor declined to elaborate on the case but said investigations into the incident were under way.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I didn't know the morgue had such life-giving powers!

[Cold Heat]

Ooops!

[Revolting cat!]

I guess this means there is still hope for Elvis! (Yeah, I know he's dead, but there is hope!)

[ladtx]

A man was asked what he would like to hear his family say about him as they passed by his casket at the funeral.

His reply: "Look he's moving!"

[Search4Truth]

(Note to self: don't get sick in Ho Chi Minh City)

[gov_bean_ counter]

Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital

Gotta love that socalized medicine, eh? Cream always rises to the top.

[VRWCmember]

I'm not dead yet.

Yes you are.

He says he's not dead yet.

I'm feeling much better, I think I'll go for a walk.

Quiet you, you're not fooling anybody.

I can't take him like this.

[r9etb]

My n-great grandfather "died," only to wake up the night before they buried him. My n-great grandmother, who was sitting vigil over him, had the wits to quickly extinguish the candles and whip away the shroud.

[dighton]

Antoine Wiertz: The Premature Burial

[Rebelbase]

There can be only one.

[steveo]

My guess was that "I'm not dead yet" would have been posted within three...

[Corin Stormhands]

just because...

[lawdude]

"There can be only one."


He's baaaack!

?

[Ed_in_NJ]

Shades of Fahmi Malik.

[presidio9]

I feel happy! I feel HAPPY!

[nickcarraway]

Paginf Edgar Allan Poe...

[dfwgator]

"Hey I thought you were dead."

"I got better."

[LurkedLongEnough]

"The Broker" - Dr. Darryl Fisher

[CCWoody]

Evidently he stunns easy.