http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/sout...reut/index.html

HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) -- An elderly Vietnamese man thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue, state media and a doctor said Friday.

Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of August 15 but was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral, the Vietnam News daily said.

"I was shocked and frightened when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving," Quan's daughter was quoted as saying.

"When the morgue's officials pulled back the blanket, my father's eyes moved, brightening with joy."

A doctor at the Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital, where Quan had been admitted after complaining of chest pain, told Reuters: "He is now still in the emergency section."

After Quan's heart failed and he was declared dead, the man was placed in the morgue where he was laid for seven hours among corpses.

The doctor declined to elaborate on the case but said investigations into the incident were under way.




Gives me a lot of confidence for the doctors in Vietnam...

 

That's so bizarre. It's usually fairly easy to tell if someone is dead. Just the ABC's, but strange things happen. I remember as a student working for some extra money it was my responsibility to pronounce people dead. DAMN that was scary. I'd have to clear the family out and be alone with the newly deceased. I'd have to make sure they did not have a heartbeat (pulses), no breathing, no responce to auditory or painfull stimulus. Some of these poor souls that had been ravaged by cancer had a frightening look to them. I would always wish them well in the afterlife before leaving their room.

 

All i can say is, if i were in that room with the "deceased" vietnamese man and he started getting up, its shovel swinging time!

I've seen enough zombie movies to realize my worse dream is coming true, and when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!

 

Woah...I'd be freaked as hell...

 

that cool. i love stuff like that

 

Wow, that's pretty cool, I just don't get how they can make such a sever mistake like that, how long after the person is pronounced dead do they get sent to the morgue?

 

the suspension of vital systems is a well documented occurence although still poorly understood. it can be chemically or meditatively induced.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/06/28/...ain298885.shtml

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/...2/rowlett2.html