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ShadesOfMe
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 Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject: Woman Declared Dead, Still Breathing in Morgue |
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433830,00.html 
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Orwell
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That actually used to be quite common in Medieval Europe.
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ShadesOfMe
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Orwell wrote: | | That actually used to be quite common in Medieval Europe. |
Yes, but it's rather shocking that today this would happen.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Orwell wrote: | | That actually used to be quite common in Medieval Europe. |
not to mention Haiti...
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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As shocking as this story is, it's not the first time this has happened!!
There's been other reports about people presumed to be dead all because of a flat line. Can't remember the reason other than the body going into a coma like state and body function slowing down to where it can cause a flat line.
You know, hundreds of years ago because of this fear of being buried alive, they used to link a string to the inside of the coffin tied around the finger. The string would link to the top with a bell above the burial ground. If the bell twitched then it was assumed that the deceased was mistook for being dead so they dug them out.
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ShadesOfMe
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| MissConstrue wrote: | As shocking as this story is, it's not the first time this has happened!!
There's been other reports about people presumed to be dead all because of a flat line. Can't remember the reason other than the body going into a coma like state and body function slowing down to where it can cause a flat line.
You know, hundreds of years ago because of this fear of being buried alive, they used to link a string to the inside of the coffin tied around the finger. The string would link to the top with a bell above the burial ground. If the bell twitched then it was assumed that the deceased was mistook for being dead so they dug them out. |
Mmmhmm, thats where they say the phrase "dead ringer" came about. Because the presumed dead was ringing.
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tweety_fan
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i have also heard of this practice where people would ask the undertaker to drain the blood out of their body once they had died and had been brought to them. as a way of making sure they were actually dead. if they were not dead already then that would kill them
i think this was done in america in the 1800's and early 1900's ( i think) |
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| I remember reading something about this in Ripley's "Believe it or Not." A woman had been buried in a family crypt, then when a thief came in looking for valuables, she sat up in her coffin and screamed at him. She walked home in her shroud (must have scared the beejeepers out of her family) and lived for another few decades, but never spoke again. |
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TallyMan
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Here's a few I heard years ago...
1. A man in a morgue was to be autopsied to find his cause of death and when a scalpel was run down his chest to expose his heart he woke up and grabbed the mortician by the throat. The mortician died of a heart attack and the "corpse" bled to death.
2. A heavily pregnant woman died and was buried. Shortly after the burial screams were heard from below. By the time the authorities had dug up the coffin she had given birth and both her and the baby had suffocated.
3. When coffins from the 19th century and earlier have been dug up (for whatever reason) apparently it was not uncommon for the lid to be scratched - on the inside and for the skeleton to have broken finger nails!
4. There was a case recently (in Australia I think) where a premature baby died and was in the cooler in the morgue for several hours when the mortician noticed it was breathing! The baby was rushed to intensive care. I don't know if it survived.
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Tim_UK
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After 'dying' at sea sailors would sew their fallen comrades into a shroud before throwing them overboard. The last stitch in the shroud was put through the 'dead' sailor's nose, more precisely, their septum, to ensure they really were dead.
There is also a strange ritual after the Pope dies in which his chamberlain takes a special hammer, raps on his head with it and calls out his former real name. Again to make sure he's really carked.
It is common for people to request in a living will that after 'death' they are given a lethal dose of medication to assure it.
Many coffins are now sold with in-built communication devices.
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| Tim_UK wrote: | | Many coffins are now sold with in-built communication devices. |
*ring*
"Uhh, yes, Hello?"
Yes, may I help you?
"I believe I've been buried alive. Could you perhaps help me?"
At this moment? I am rather busy.
"Oh, well, anytime soon please. I wouldn't want to bother."
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Keith
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| oscuria wrote: | | Tim_UK wrote: | | Many coffins are now sold with in-built communication devices. |
*ring*
"Uhh, yes, Hello?"
Yes, may I help you?
"I believe I've been buried alive. Could you perhaps help me?"
Please hold
"Oh, well, anytime soon please. I wouldn't want to bother." |
Edited, that's more like it, I think |
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Ana54
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There was a case in Australia where a man was about to be autopsied and he moved and they realized he was alive and he was in critical condition... then there was the guy in Ireland who woke up in the morgue, again before being autopsied... then there was the old woman who went tro the hospital with a minor complaint but passed out and they checked her and she was dead... they took her to the morgue and later she was found alive in the freezer, suffering from hypothermia... it happens more often than you think.
I'm for leaving them out for a while until they start to rot, to make sure they're dead, before doing ANYTHING.
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