A woman who was declared dead at a hospital horrifyingly ‘came back to life’ en route to her own funeral.
After taking a turn for the worse, the woman was found to have died and was moved from the mortuary to the funeral parlour in preparation for her burial.
But staff were reportedly horrified when they discovered that the elderly woman actually has a pulse. Compounding their panic, she is the said to have moved her fingers.
Paramedics at the funeral home in Son Valenti funeral parlour in Palma, Majorca confirmed she was alive and rushed her back to the city’s Juan March de Bunyola Hospital. Her current condition remains unknown.
An internal inquiry is now underway to determine what led to the erroneous declaration of her death. The incident follows a similar case in February last year, when morgue workers were left terrified as a woman seemingly returned from the dead, moving inside a body bag.
The unnamed patient, who had showed signs of severe malnutrition and had no respiratory or brain activity, was declared dead. However, after five hours inside a body bag at the San Juan de Dios General Hospital in Guatemala, she suddenly began to move.
Morgue workers were left in shock as they rushed to alert doctors after a woman was found alive, leading to her readmission to the emergency room. Despite their best efforts to resuscitate her, she showed no vital signs and was declared dead for the second time.
The hospital extended their support to her grieving family during this “difficult time they are facing”. It remained unclear whether authorities investigated the incident.
A hospital spokesperson said the young woman had first arrived in a “precarious condition” and shown signs of “severe malnutrition” and had a medical history of seizures and cerebral palsy. The spokesman added: “After 30 minutes of medical efforts, she was declared deceased and her body was transferred to the morgue as part of established protocol.”
In a similar case last year, a Texas teenager named Sammy Berko, 16, suffered a cardiac arrest at a rock climbing gym and was pronounced dead. However, he was revived two hours later following continuous CPR, leading one of his doctors to hail him as a “literal miracle”.
Sammy’s mum Jennifer said at the time: “He climbed to the top of the wall, rang the bell, as we were told, and then his body went limp, and it looked like he was either playing around or passed out. They weren’t quite sure and when they realised he was unresponsive, they lowered him slowly.”
The heartbroken parents were given a private moment to say goodbye to their beloved son – having already lost his sibling Frankie three years ago.
Jennifer said: “I started talking to him, just telling him how much I love him and sorry that we didn’t know how to save him. Suddenly, as I started praying, my husband said, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s moving’.”
In another shocking incident from June last year, Bella Montoya Castro, 76, was declared dead at a hospital in southwest Quito, Ecuador. However, she woke up during her funeral hours later.
Her son Gilber Barberan reported that friends placing flowers on the casket heard noises coming from inside the coffin, realising it was Bella making the sounds.
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