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Amid the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, it's easier to get help if you are dead than if you are alive. My producer and I were driving back from an assignment in Monrovia, where we filmed this morning's "Good Morning America" segment, when we saw a burial team working along the roadway surrounded by crowds of angry locals. A community leader said they had been trying to get help for the dead man for days, but no ambulance ever came. When the man died, a burial team came in an hour.

OSTROW LUBELSKI, POLAND (TVN POLAND/CNN) – Polish woman Janina Kolkiewicz, 91, who was declared dead, woke up in a funeral home. "I do not know how it is possible. I examined her, she did not show signs of life," said the shocked doctor who wrote out her death certificate.

A toddler who ‘woke up’ at her own funeral is reportedly dead. Startled mourners thought they had caught a miracle on camera when the toddler they were about to bury ‘woke up’. The three-year-old from Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur in the Philippines, was pronounced dead at 9am on Friday and was set for burial at 1pm on Saturday. But during the funeral her family, friends and loved ones got the surprise of their lives when the little girl came back to life. People started recording the unbelievable scenes after a priest was preparing to administer the last sacrament and someone...

She told police her brother and uncle strangled her but later she dropped the caseAn Egyptian woman who was believed to have been killed by her brother and uncle woke up in the grave and went straight to the police. Once her brother and uncle were arrested, she went to the prosecutor and dropped the case, saying she tried to commit a suicide. Police arrested the two men after witnesses said they saw them taking the 30-year-old woman to the nearby cemetery in Minya town, nearly 250 km south of the capital Cairo. “At first she said they strangled her...

A cemetery worker got the fright of his life when he heard a woman screaming from inside her buried coffin. The man told police he could hear muffled shouts and banging coming from the plot of a 49-year-old woman who had been pronounced dead and buried that day. Workers and cemetery visitors frantically dug up the coffin and smashed it open, however they were too late and the woman had died. Police visited the Peraia cemetery near Thessaloniki in Greece, however a doctor who examined her body at the scene claimed she had been dead for hours and could not...

BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. -- A family that claims a woman was frozen to death in a hospital morgue after she was prematurely declared dead can proceed with a medical malpractice lawsuit, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. "This is one of the most egregious cases you'll ever see," family attorney Scott Schutzman told CBS Los Angeles. "This case keeps me awake at night." The California 2nd District Court of Appeal overturned a lower court ruling that the lawsuit against White Memorial Hospital was filed too late. Maria de Jesus Arroyo, 80, was declared dead in July 2010 after suffering a heart...