Woman Comes to Life While Being Prepared for Burial…Then ‘Dies’ Again
- Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:37pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A Brazilian undertaker got the surprise of his life when he noticed a woman who was declared dead and being prepared for burial was actually breathing and moving.
Maria das Doreswas actually breathing and moving.
The London Telegraph reports:
Maria das Dores was a few hours from being buried alive when an official noticed she was still breathing.
Doctors declared her dead on Dec 22 after noticing she had no vital signs.
The 88-year-old was rushed back to the same hospital who had earlier declared her dead.
She had been brought to the hospital in the town of Ipatinga suffering from blocked arteries. She also suffered from Alzheimer’s and was bedridden.
Officials in Brazil have now launched an investigation into how medical chiefs failed to realise the woman was alive and not dead when they sent her body for burial.
“We are happy to know my mother is alive and unhappy with the lack of respect due her,” the family told the Telegraph. Das Dores is now recovering in the intensive care unit. The family is considering a lawsuit against the hospital.
(H/T: FARK)
UPDATE:
The woman has now “officially” passed away…again:
First she died, then she didn’t. Now, sadly, she has, again.
As 88-year-old Maria das Dores da Conceição’s body was being readied for burial, funeral parlour staff noticed her twitch.
And though hospital doctors in Ipatinga, Brazil, signed her death certificate citing clogged arteries and hypertension, they have ashamedly admitted Mrs Conceicao was very much alive.
Maria Das Dores was spotted breathing and moving in her coffin at a funeral parlour and was promptly rushed back to a hospital, where she has again been declared dead.
But just a day after being rushed back to an intensive care ward, still in her coffin, she has died, again.
Doctors gave her emergency treatment while still in her coffin at the same time as her funeral was due to be held on Christmas Day.
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Comments (66)
Volsense
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:39pmI didn’t know Brazil had Death Counselors too…..er…. I mean End of Life Counselors too. I don’t think the woman agreed with their opinion. She does now.
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:35pmWow bet the undertaker needed a clean pair of shorts after that!!
Report Post »WeTheHomers
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:04pmI’m not sure death is the worst option with progressives ruining the country for our kids. I sometimes say aloud, dad – i’m glad ur not here to see what they are doing to ur country.
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:53pmCOMING SOON to a hospital in the U.S. with obama care…
Report Post »tobefreeinmt
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:41pmWith all due respect, I am no fan of Hospice care. I’ve seen it! NO WAY. Not now, not today, not tomorrow, not ever!!!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:33pmWhoa there! She’s come back to life! Get Obama and ask what to do!
Report Post »Sergio Q
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:23pm~May She rest in peace ….finally!
Report Post »Sergio Q
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:22pmthis is just the kind of event that obama’s death panels have nightmares over …but fear not Libtardz & Dr.Jack fanz ,SpookyDudeSoros ownes 1/2 the news media so he will keep that from our eyes… God help us!
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:37pmObamacare ….and its death panel…is the means to affect our elderly…who are the safekeepers of our history.
Report Post »ideaGasms
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:36pmWow, imagine the creeped-out feeling of the guy who discovered
Report Post »she was still alive. Yikes. I think I would have quit the job right
then and there. :)
itsmyfirstday
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:33pmComing soon to a hospital near you….unless you work for the government…
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:21pmhad a friend that had a dog get run over,his brother saw that it was dying so he shot him with a 22 bullet and they carried his body back to the woods and 2 days later the dog limped back home and lived, true story
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:33pmSounds like the dog was a liberal. Who else would go back to the person that shot them? Maybe it will be different this time. NOT.
Report Post »Hoosier Daddy
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:55pmI guess a .22 bullet is cheaper than a vet visit.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:13pmPet Cemetery – did you see that movie?
Report Post »Mirimichi
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:03pmThis is what 0bamaCare is going to look like in the not-to-distant future. Unless Joe Walsh can put a stop to it.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:20pmGO Joe!
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:59pmI wonder if they’ll give the 35% death tax back. (yes I know it was another country)
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:07pmwhy shes DEAD!! she doesn’t deserve it cuz shes DEAD! You all need to drop DEAD so wiener can take your money because you don’t deserve it!!! What??? she isn’t dead?… well uhmmm who was in charge of her death panel?, I mean who was the government appointed health care worker? <– WOW!
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Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:10pmYeah and she probably wasn’t wealth enough to have the tax since very few in the US even have to pay it! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Doc_Slammin
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 8:02pm@walkwithme1966
So, you condone a government taking, approximately, 1/3 of everything a person owns upon their death as long as it only effects a certain minority of people?
It is shallow and careless thinking like this that kept blacks from attaining civil rights in this country for so long. Politicians did not give blacks civil rights, they spent much of their time arguing whether blacks were “people or not”. It took a majority of Americans, both black and white, to pressure politicians into amending the Constitution to remove all doubt that minorities show be treated as equals. Now, all these years later, we come full circle and have to defend another minority class that our own government is demonizing.
Please, wake up and quit being so short-sighted. Your bigotry is showing.
Report Post »GodsDotr
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:55pmI’m glad they discovered her before it was too late. It is unfortunate she suffers from Alzheimer’s disease; otherwise, she might have been able to convey her experience.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:52pmthis happens more than you know. I have a friend who is a funeral director and he has said he has seen hospitals send for him before the person has passed on they wanted him to start work he refused and quit his job..
Report Post »Kathleen
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:00pmI wonder if there are other funeral directors, people behind the scenes who would be willing to come out and tell their stories. It would be interesting to know the goings on in hospitals.
Report Post »bht579
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:51pmWHAT?? They dont embalm corpses?? I smell BS
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:56pmThat’s what I was thinking.
Report Post »home_of_the_brave
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:24pmNot every country embalms their dead the way we do. The chemicals are expensive and dangerous so this does not surprise me.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:28pmThey haven’t burried Soros yet and in my opinion, he’s dead.
Report Post »BetsyRoss1513
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:26amActually, that is a very common thing in central and south america – no burial prep. The dead are buried within 24 hours.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:46pmTo bad she wasn’t in the U.S. Obamacare would have…..never mind
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:58pm…buried her anyway? Yup!
Report Post »Kathleen
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:45pmThat is why I think people who put way toooo much trust in the medical profession to do the right thing are being naieve. You still need safeguards in place. Yes, there are human errors, sometimes brought on by medical staff having too much on their plate. There is also those in the medical profession who are neglectful, uncaring, and simply in that position for status.
Report Post »tonguetied5
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:44pmAnd Soros is there with his death panels I’m sure!
Report Post »booger71
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:44pmGotta love socialist health care
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:07pmHey, that could happen right now in American so don’t try to drop this on the doorstep of socialized medicine. Besides do you even know what type of healthcare Brazil has?
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Highland
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:08pmDid Berwick sign her death certificate?
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Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:43pmJack The Ripper comes to life in this new script, by CV Hubbard…download your free copy today!
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will
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:42pmOfficials in Brazil have now launched an investigation into how medical chiefs got caught trying to use their very own private death panel.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:41pmThis whole world is going nuts, poor woman.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:41pmI heard about this case on the news last night; she passed away two days later according to the local radio news.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:52pmSounds like the death panel decided she was dead .. the nerve of her …
Report Post »cubber
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:53pmThe one thing I want them to say when they see me in my coffin. LOOK, he’s moving. BE PREPARED.
Report Post »clockn63
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:56pmThis is nothing shiort of a medical travesty. I know if this were my mom or gmom I would be livid.
Report Post »101
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:00pmThey took her back to the same hospital and she passed two days later… I would ask for a second opinion!
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:00pm@SnowLeper: So what if she passed away two days later! Your point is…………..?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:15pm“I’m alive! I feel happy!”
“You’re not fooling anybody old man!”
Report Post »Conservativeman
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:24pm“Bring out your dead,…Bring out your dead” It was a mistake. Small stuff.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:43pmBy looking at the photo she is either [still ]dead or came back as Keith Richards.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:53pmI was a CNA for hospice patients and cared for them mostly somewhere between two weeks to a few days before death. You have to be careful sometimes because vitals can slow down a lot and you may thing the person is dead but isn’t. They are in the process of dying, and organs are shutting down that is why you don’t hear or feel pulses where you should be able too. You may not even gastric noises or heart beat or breath. You have to listen carefully and for a while. There are other signs that the person is dead too, skin color, and marbling around the joints. It seems to me that a nurse or a doctor didn’t listen carefully enough and look at all the signs for death. They must of been in a hurry and was busy or distracted. Shame it had to happen, I hope they really checked well the second time around!! It is not that hard, really if you know what you are doing.
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Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:02pmI have heard of that happening to people – their vital signs drop so low that they can’t be detected and they are declared died and later the vitals go up and the person is seen breathing. This stuff is really spookie!
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:05pmThe doctors probably made her dead for embarrassing them the first time. The nerve of that woman! This sad situation will be coming to your town soon.
Report Post »Nightstalker
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:43pmBut I’m not dead yet!
Shut up, you’ll be dead soon enough!
He’ll be dead soon, just put him on the cart!
Sadly some people look dead and are not!
Report Post »Take George Soros for instance.
If he was asleep, I would think he was dead, and would put him on the wagon!
WVdad
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 7:31pmWow, hope this doesnt happen to some young organ donor in new york with there back to back meat wagons
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:46amThat is why all my ID’s show that I am not a organ donor, but my family knows otherwise. I recommend everyone make a living will, you’ll sleep better at night.
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