From News 24, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 50-year-old asthmatic man presumed dead by his family woke up inside the morgue of a private undertaker at Libode in the Transkei region (Eastern Cape) on Sunday afternoon
The man, whose name has been withheld, lost consciousness while asleep at his home in a nearby village on Saturday evening, said Eastern Cape health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.
"His family thought he had died," Kupelo told Sapa.
The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue on Sunday at 17:00 and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place."
He had been there for nearly 24 hours.
Kupelo said the two mortuary attendants who were on duty at the time ran out of the building thinking the screaming man was a ghost.
They called for help, put on brave faces and went back to find that the man was indeed alive.
This advice goes without saying: He warned the public not to assume that a sick person had died and call a mortuary.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Dead-man-wakes-up-in-mortuary-20110724
I am sure the man will have a few words for his family.
And can you even imagine the shock the workers at the mortuary must have felt when they heard the yelling. I'd probably crap in my pants if I worked at the mortuary and heard yelling from a supposed dead man.
My biggest childhood nightmare, inspired by a DC Comics "House of Mystery" or "House of Secrets" story was to be buried alive. I'm glad this guy escaped that fate.
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