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Woman dies of heart attack waking up at her OWN funeral
2011-06-24
A woman died from a heart attack caused by shock after waking up to discover she had been declared dead - and was being prepared for burial.

As mourning relatives filed past her open coffin the supposedly dead woman suddenly woke up and started screaming as she realised where she was.

Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, had been wrongly declared deceased by doctors but died for real after hearing mourners saying prayers for her soul to be taken up to heaven in Kazan, Russia.

Devastated husband Fagili Mukhametzyanov, 51, had been told his wife had died of a heart attack after she'd collapsed at home suffering from chest pains.

Mr Mukhametzyanov said: 'Her eyes fluttered and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital but she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.

'I am very angry and want answers. She wasnÂ’t dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.'

Hospital spokesman Minsalih Sahapov said: 'We are carrying out an investigation.'
Posted by:Alaska Paul

#4  Oh, and to be relevant, in some people it could cause a deep, intermittent catatonia. For this reason, since they might not feel a pulse, to stick a needle into the hand and hold a mirror under the nose.

And it really didn't help that some healthy, athletic people get strong spasms shortly after death. There are cases where dead people have even jumped off of hospital gurneys.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-06-24 14:50  

#3  Premature burial became a very big part of the Gothic fad caused by the lethal tuberculosis epidemic. It was such a weird and unpredictable disease, that it about drove people nuts.

It would attack about any internal organ. If it hit the spine, it could put a person into a wheelchair. It could drive another person insane. Some would become hyper-artistic or hyper-sexual. Someone else would look fit as a fiddle then drop dead.

And many had a gray pallor and looked starved, as their digestion had been inhibited.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-06-24 14:45  

#2  Very reason father of deh country insisted on a 3 days waiting period in his will. Can't be to careful these days, clawmarks on casket lids and such.
Posted by: S   2011-06-24 13:35  

#1  That Russian Vodka can raise the dead and then kill them again. Potent stuff.
Posted by: Slomoter Wheatch9268   2011-06-24 12:50  

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