Thread: OMG~"Corpse Still ALIVE..........

Can you believe this one?? Poor man.......

'Corpse' still alive after 5 hours in funeral home refrigerator
Associated Press
Aug. 12, 2002 11:45:00
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...live12-ON.html

PARIS - A 68-year-old man was mistakenly declared dead last week and refrigerated for five hours at a funeral parlor before a worker noticed he was alive, a Bordeaux hospital said Monday.


The unidentified man, in the final stages of cancer, was declared dead Friday at a nursing home near the southwest city of Bordeaux. A doctor summoned to the home issued a death certificate.

The man then was sent to a funeral parlor in nearby Macau, where he was refrigerated for five hours. An employee at the funeral parlor was preparing the man for burial when he noticed signs of life.

"When I ... opened the cover, I saw that his stomach was moving," Laurent Besson told France-2 television. "I don't deny that I jumped."

The man was transferred to the Bordeaux University Hospital and placed in intensive care, where he died Sunday night, a hospital statement said. It was unclear whether the refrigeration played a role in the man's death.

The head of the hospital's forensics department, Sophie Gromb, said such errors, while rare, are not improbable.

"A person can experience respiratory pauses, and if there's no pulse at the time, the subject could be declared dead," she said. "The law says you can't bury someone within 24 hours of his death, precisely to avoid burying people alive."

The identity of the doctor who signed the initial death certificate was not released.

Police in the Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, said the man was terminally ill with throat cancer but the cause of his death had not been determined.

An autopsy was scheduled for Monday, deputy prosecutor Jean-David Cavaille said.

"For now, there is nothing suspicious," he said. "But we'll decide whether there was a medical error or a punishable infraction based on what we find."

Bordeaux prosecutors also were trying to determine what to do about the different death certificates issued for the man.

The Clos Lafitte nursing home had little to say about the incident.

"We not hiding anything," a spokeswoman said. "All the facts connected with this case have been relayed to the police."


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poor man...

I would have fell over dead if I had been the employee.

Originally posted by Tasha405
I would have fell over dead if I had been the employee.

You and ME both hon! This just blew my mind~

I saw this subject on the Sci-Fi? channel the other day. How it was almost common for ppl to be buried alive a long time ago. There was a man who was in a coma and they pronounced him dead and buried him, well they dug him back up the next day to check something (cant remember what) and they saw that he was still alive. He was also paralysed. It was a fasinating show. Made me want to be cremated lol

OMG! how awful!

I don't understand how you can "mistake" something like that. I really don't. I thought you had to check for respiratory and any vitals for at least 2 minutes before pronouncing? Maybe I'm wrong. I agree. That poor man.

Originally posted by Raining
I saw this subject on the Sci-Fi? channel the other day. How it was almost common for ppl to be buried alive a long time ago. There was a man who was in a coma and they pronounced him dead and buried him, well they dug him back up the next day to check something (cant remember what) and they saw that he was still alive. He was also paralysed. It was a fasinating show. Made me want to be cremated lol

then you would be burined alive OUCH not sure what worse being buried alive or being burned

you guys are giving me the creeps now i ant never going to a funeral again its my excuss now

AND IF I WORK AND SEEN IT I WOULD QUIT IF I DID NOT PASS OUT OR HAVE A HEART ATTACT FIRST LOL

Originally posted by Gia30


You and ME both hon! This just blew my mind~

Well I think i would rather be burned cuz i would pass out from shock when the flames hit. Being buried and stuck in there for days before finally suffocating seems worse to me lol

They also had this woman on that show who was pronounced dead and was wrong 3 TIMES! she had a condidtion where her body signs were virtually undetectable when you check her. Poor woman..