A Brazilian man has 'come back from the dead' after a funeral home realised he was still breathing as they prepared his body for his wake. Juraci Rosa Alves was admitted to a hospital on May 16, where a doctor declared him dead due to respiratory failure. A funeral home was then called and Alves, 88, was transported there for standard post-death procedures. But while staff were preparing the body for the wake, they detected signs of life. Jacqueline Brogiato, the funeral home's technical nursing supervisor, told local media: 'Our funeral staff carried out the transfer as a standard procedure....