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Dead man defies doctors, returns to life
[Straits Times] ONE 65-year-old man came back to life two-and-a-half hours after doctors at a Penang hospital pronounced him dead.He's dead, Jim! The rare phenomenon known as the Lazarus Syndrome has become the talk of the town. "When I peg out, hold off with the embalming fluid until I start to stink!" "Me, too!" "Yeah, and me!" Upon learning of the self-employed man's death, his family began making funeral arrangements and had even put up a canopy in front of his house on Jalan Tok Elong, Tanah Liat in Bukit Mertajam. His wife and his 26-year-old son, who were on their way to the district police station to lodge a report, were stunned when a doctor called to inform them that the man was alive. "The funeral home probably won't return your deposit, y'know. Y'got anybody else in the family that's dead?" Relating the incident, the man's son, known only as Mr Wei, said he had rushed his father to hospital at about 11am on Thursday when he stopped breathing at their home. "Pop! Pop! Say somethin'!" [Rattle!]... [Twitch!] 'The doctors performed cardiac pulmonary resuscitation and pronounced him dead an hour later. "He's dead, Jim!" "You said that!" We then left for the police station when we received a call from a doctor at about 1.30pm,' he said. "Hello? Is this young Weh? Hey, listen, your old man sez he's not dead! You might wanta hold off on hiring the grave diggers!" Posted by: Fred 2011-04-16 |
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