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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/17/ma ... uring.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carlos Amejo, 33, of Caracas, Venezuela, was reportedly declared dead after a car wreck but woke up during an autopsy. (A Reuters report, summarizing an article from the Spanish-language El Universal, doesn't state why an autopsy had been ordered.) Amejo allegedly became alert when examiners started to stitch up an incision on his face.

 

 

 

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said...

 

 

 

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow. I would hate to wake up knowing im being cut open :ohnoes:

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I can laugh at this too, it's like a bonus prize for the doctor. You know you're having a good day when you save someone in an autopsy! :P

 

 

 

Only to be sued for malpractice later on!!!!

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His heart had probably slowed down to the point of inaudibility. It happens frequently in cases of shock. He wouldn't bleed as much, either.

 

 

 

It happened on CSI, too :P.

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Good Lord, imagine how scary that is, doing an autopsy only to have the body wake up.

 

 

 

I'd be freaked out to say the least. :-w

 

 

 

Surely you know when someone is dead though. Not an easy mistake to make. :|

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Wow, that reminds me of that short story that Stephen King wrote. The one about the Golfer who got bit by some weird snake and became paralysed :ohnoes:

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His heart had probably slowed down to the point of inaudibility. It happens frequently in cases of shock. He wouldn't bleed as much, either.

 

 

 

It happened on CSI, too :P.

 

 

 

Yea, but on CSI, they only figured it out because the guy started bleeding when they tried to cut open his chest. And if he was conscious enough to realize how much the stitches hurt, his wounds would probably be bleeding.

 

 

 

Edit: Found the article, and the examiners started the autopsy, he started bleeding, and they stitched up his face. Makes more sense now lol.

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Remember that coroners are also spread thinly. My county has over 2 million people in it, but only one coroner! And this is in Venezuela.

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Remember that coroners are also spread thinly. My county has over 2 million people in it, but only one coroner! And this is in Venezuela.

 

 

 

Not all of them are dieing, though. :P

 

 

 

You'd be surprised. My grandmother died this past summer, and it took 8 hours for the coroner to arrive to legally pronounce her dead.

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