Ouch... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22424121-13762,00.html 'Dead' man wakes in autopsy 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 realise 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," Mr Camejo told 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. Mr Camejo showed the El Universal his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
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dang. I bet that pathologist is glad he didn't sleep with that patient. That would have been really nasty.
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Still better than being buried alive I say. But yeah, that sucks. Some dumbass says you're dead so somebody starts slicing you open with no anesthesia. I don't know how they do things in Venezuela, but in America that would be lawsuit city out the wazoo.
I was reading something the other day about a Marine in Lebanon in 1983 who was in the barracks that was bombed. They had him toe tagged and set aside in a body bag for four days until one of the examiners heard him moaning. A Google indicates that 56-57 million people die every year worldwide. 1 mistake in 57 million seems almost inevitable. I think if you are viewing this as anything more than a fluke, you are reading too much into things.
nasty in the sense that this guy got his face cut open. not miracolous either, just some really stupid doctor/coroner.
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead. [a man puts a body on the cart] Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one. The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: What? Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead. Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not. The Dead Collector: He isn't. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better. Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart. Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby. The Dead Collector: I can't take him. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine. Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor. The Dead Collector: I can't. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long. The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round? The Dead Collector: Thursday. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk. Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do? The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy. [the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club] Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much. The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday. Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
