And the 'dead' arose...

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:20 pm

A similar thing happened around here lately, I'll have to dig that one up, but hee's another.

Mon Sep 17, 8:53 AM ET

CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.

Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.

Source

Blackstar the Chakat · Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:46 pm

The only way this could be funnier is if the wife had been cheating and brought her boyfriend with her. Since he didn't die we can feel free to make jokes about it, right?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:51 pm

I guess so.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:46 pm

"Wait a minute... I didn't have the salmon mousse..."

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:45 pm

''You americans!''-love death for saying that,lol

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:46 pm

..in monty pythons' meaning of life, i mean lol

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:49 pm

There's been a few cases where people have woken up in like the freezers in the morgues. I wonder how that is that a heart will stop long enough to be put into a morgue then kick back on.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:56 pm

you can also do that with tadpoles..........my neighbour is an ill man

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:44 pm

Wow, thats slightly spooky. I wonder how many people have actually been bueried alive?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:52 pm

Rochey wrote:Wow, thats slightly spooky. I wonder how many people have actually been bueried alive?

I don't have numbers, but it was apparently so prevalent in the 19th century that graves were designed with bell-pulls that victims could ring to be let out. More widely, where do you think a lot of the "vampires-crawling-out-of-their-graves" legends came from?

celeritas · Post by **celeritas** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:08 am

Rochey wrote:Wow, thats slightly spooky. I wonder how many people have actually been bueried alive?

whats spookier still is how many people got their organs harvested for transplantation while they are still "alive". nobody really knows, because we don't have a good medical definition of death.

Blackstar the Chakat · Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:55 am

Captain Seafort wrote:
Rochey wrote:Wow, thats slightly spooky. I wonder how many people have actually been bueried alive?
I don't have numbers, but it was apparently so prevalent in the 19th century that graves were designed with bell-pulls that victims could ring to be let out. More widely, where do you think a lot of the "vampires-crawling-out-of-their-graves" legends came from?

Made worse by the lack of science. Under certain conditions the outer part(the skin and other obvious stuff) would appear to make a dead(really dead) person look more lively. Without a scientific explination some came up with vampires as an explanation. I studied a little about vampires when we read Dracula in my classic literature class.

Anyway ...

"i live! I saw a tunnel with a light at the end of it." *a stake is driven through his heart* "hey there's that light again."

Azrael · Post by **Azrael** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:56 am

Actually, the rampant people being buried alive was found to be a myth, they tested it on Mythbusters, and someone could only last about 20 minutes inside of a coffin when it was sealed.

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:18 am

Actually, the rampant people being buried alive was found to be a myth, they tested it on Mythbusters, and someone could only last about 20 minutes inside of a coffin when it was sealed.

I missed that ep... I can only dream of how they tested that one!

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:15 am

Azrael wrote:Actually, the rampant people being buried alive was found to be a myth, they tested it on Mythbusters, and someone could only last about 20 minutes inside of a coffin when it was sealed.

Doesn't mean they weren't put there alive to begin with