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Dead—Not Dead! (Mistaken Reports & Declarations Of Death)

If that happened in Limerick a nurse or doctor would stab the patient to cover things up.

An ambulance trust has apologised after a patient who was declared "dead" later woke up in hospital.

As first reported by The Northern Echo, the individual was taken by paramedics to Darlington Memorial Hospital on Friday. The newspaper reported they had been declared dead following an incident earlier that day.

The North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) apologised to the patient's family and said an inquiry had begun.

The patient has not been identified or their current condition revealed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-67120608
 

Crematorium worker finds 90-year-old woman alive after being pronounced dead

A crematorium worker in Brazil got the shock of his life when he went to a hospital morgue to collect the body of a deceased 90-year-old woman, only to find that she was still alive, according to reports.

The nightmarish incident occurred in the city of São José on Saturday, just hours after staff at the hospital pronounced Norma Silveira da Silva dead.

The woman was zipped into a body bag and sent down to the morgue, where the unsuspecting undertaker made the chilling discovery.

The first death certificate for da Silva, which was issued by the hospital at 11:40 p.m., claimed that the woman had succumbed to a “urinary tract infection.”

Pereira said the woman’s body was hastily sent off to the morgue without allowing her loved ones a chance to see her first.

Da Silva was zipped into a body bag and sent down to the morgue at Hospital Regional de São José.

The crematorium staffer who went to collect the deceased patient around 1:30 a.m. opened the bag and noticed that da Silva’s body was still warm and not yet showing rigor mortis, which was surprising given the amount of time that had elapsed, said Pereira.

“When he opened the bag, she was breathing very weakly. And, as she was no longer conscious, she couldn’t ask for help, she tried to breathe and couldn’t,”

The nonagenarian was taken back to a hospital room, but she was verifiably dead Monday morning.

The patient’s family is planning to sue the hospital.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/30/news/crematorium-worker-finds-dead-woman-alive-in-body-bag/

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Potholes have their uses.

In Haryana, India, Darshan Singh Brar, age 80, was in the hospital on a ventilator for four days when physicians reported that his heart had stopped. Declared dead, Brar was put in an ambulance to be taken back to his home where mourners were waiting and he was to be cremated on a funeral pyre. On the way though, the ambulance hit a huge pothole and one his grandsons who was riding in the vehicle saw that Brar's hand moved.

Upon checking, his heart was beating and the ambulance rushed him to Rawal Hospital nearby. According to NDTV, Brar is in critical condition but still alive.

"We cannot say that the patient had died," said a physician at Rawal Hospital. "When he was brought to us, he was breathing and had blood pressure as well as a pulse. We don't know what happened at the other hospital, whether it was a technical error or something else."

https://boingboing.net/2024/01/15/dead-man-revived-when-ambulance-hit-a-pothole.html
 
Not quite dead yet.

A 74-year-old woman pronounced dead in hospice care was found to be alive after transportation to a funeral home.

The woman had been transported from a nursing home, where she had been declared dead at around 9:44 a.m. local time, to the Butherus-Maser & Love Funeral Home in Lincoln on Monday morning, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities responded to the funeral home after an employee noticed the woman was breathing and "instantly called 911" at approximately 11:44 a.m., according to Lancaster County Chief Deputy Ben Houchin.

Don't think too long about how common this state of affairs might be!

https://boingboing.net/2024/06/04/74-year-old-dead-woman-found-alive-in-funeral-home.html
 

Indian man awakes on funeral pyre


JAIPUR: An Indian man awoke on a funeral pyre moments before it was to be set on fire after a doctor skipped a postmortem, medical officials said Saturday.

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Labourers unload wood from a truck to be used for funeral pyres at a crematorium in New Delhi on May 11, 2021. (AFP/File)

Rohitash Kumar, 25, who had speaking and hearing difficulties, had fallen sick and was taken to a hospital in Jhunjhunu in the western state of Rajasthan on Thursday.

Indian media reported he had had an epileptic seizure, and a doctor declared him dead on arrival at the hospital.
But instead of the required postmortem to ascertain the cause of death, doctors sent him to the mortuary, and then to be burned according to Hindu rites.

D. Singh, chief medical officer of the hospital, told AFP that a doctor had “prepared the postmortem report without actually doing the postmortem, and the body was then sent for cremation.”

Singh said that “shortly before the pyre was to be lit, Rohitash’s body started movements,” adding that “he was alive and was breathing.”

Kumar was rushed to hospital for a second time, but was confirmed dead on Friday during treatment.

Authorities have suspended the services of three doctors and the police have launched an investigation.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2580449/world

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