"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife

[Rocky]

CARACAS (Reuters) - 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 realize 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," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local 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.

Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN149975820070914

 

[Shellie]

thats crazy

 

[Big Dakota]

Venezuelan medical folks

 

[Mavs Man]

It's rare but does happen on occasion. Sometimes during the Y-incision when it is too late to stitch them back up and save them.

There have been cases of people being buried alive in ages past, but not since morticians began embalming more regularly. That ends any comeback possibilities.