A woman pronounced dead wasn't actually dead
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (44721)
Staten Island, New York
June 15, 2023 4:12pm CST
An elderly woman in a hospital in Ecuador was pronounced dead after she did not respond to resuscitation. A wake was done for her and five hours into it a sound was coming from the coffin. Turns out the woman was actually alive. She was banging on it from inside, breathing heavily.
I wonder... Did the woman not show any signs of life after being pronounced dead and then brought to the funeral home and placed into the coffin? Or was no one paying attention? How did she not suffocate in the coffin? Or was it open the whole time?
She is in serious condition. I hope she will be okay.
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@toniganzon (72533)
• Philippines
16 Jun 23
Sometimes that could happen. I read about something like that several years ago. There is a medical term for such a thing that ti have forgotten.
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@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jun 23
Do people actually die and somehow come back to life? Or are they misdiagnosed somehow?
@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jun 23
Her family went through a lot too. They must’ve been in shock to find she was actually alive.
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@AmbiePam (93883)
• United States
15 Jun 23
There is one lady, and I want to say it was Texas, where this has happened to her three times, as she has a condition that drops her vitals really low. Even with this known to family, and the ambulance crew, she has ended up in the morgue three times. Thankfully, no one had tried an autopsy before she's come to. Although, as soon as someone would make a cut, they'd know...
@AmbiePam (93883)
• United States
15 Jun 23
@lovebuglena Probably not. But you know they at least were not charged for embalming!
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@AmbiePam (93883)
• United States
15 Jun 23
@lovebuglena Then I'd threaten to sue them for the cost. In that country, they might just give them the money though, to try to mitigate the problem immediately.
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@AmbiePam (93883)
• United States
16 Jun 23
@lovebuglena Hmmm. You would have thought it would have been, wouldn't you. By the way, I'm sorry you lost your dad at all. With my mom gone, I try not to worry too much about my dad, but I do. I hope your mom is in good health at least.
That's so crazy, yet we hear of these incidents every now and then. I don't know how in the world that could even happen (they check all the vitals before making it official . . . or at least they're supposed to).
@kaylachan (71762)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Jun 23
There have been cases where a person might go into a cataleptic state, and seem as if they've passed when in reality they hadn't. Not sure how it was missed.
@kaylachan (71762)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Jun 23
@lovebuglena Sounds this is becoming more common.
@kaylachan (71762)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Jun 23
@lovebuglena There were enough a couple docs series were made about it. Plus featured twice on Untoldstories of the ER.
@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
15 Jun 23
@kaylachan Crazy. I wonder how long after being discovered that they are actually alive do these people l live?
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@RebeccasFarm (90464)
• Arvada, Colorado
16 Jun 23
It is really very strange all this..but horrifying for the woman can you imagine it?
@RebeccasFarm (90464)
• Arvada, Colorado
16 Jun 23
@lovebuglena It is beyond imagination for me.
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@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jun 23
Yeah. Was she alive the entire time she was in the coffin I wonder...
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@moffittjc (121714)
• Gainesville, Florida
16 Jun 23
And obviously in Ecuador they don’t do any kind of embalming process….
@moffittjc (121714)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Jun 23
@lovebuglena Well, if they did, that woman wouldn't be alive today, as the embalming fluid being pumped through her body would have killed her!
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@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jun 23
They don’t? But I guess it’s a good thing in this case.
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@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
21 Jun 23
@TheHorse it is. Don’t know what happened.
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jun 23
That poor soul. She was very lucky that someone heard her..
@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jun 23
Five hours into the wake it happened.
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@MarieCoyle (38702)
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15 Jun 23
I saw this on the news last night as well. Can you imagine her fear?? Unbelievable.
@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
15 Jun 23
I came across this today. The shock it must have brought to the family.
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@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
16 Jun 23
@MarieCoyle I’m not sure if the coffin was closed or open.
@MarieCoyle (38702)
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16 Jun 23
@lovebuglena
I'm a bit claustrophobic. I would probably die anyway, of fright!
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@RasmaSandra (80736)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Jun 23
The scariest and strangest thing I have ever heard. I sure hope she'll be all right,
@lovebuglena (44721)
• Staten Island, New York
15 Jun 23
Not the first time something like this has happened. Scary.
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