Dead Woman Wakes Up And Asks For Hot Tea On Way To Morgue

Here's one for the books! I worked in a large well known cemetery Mountain Grove in Bridgeport Ct. Where P.T. barnum, Tom Thumb and Lavinia are buried. I worked there four summers while going to college. I have seen some weird things but this would just freak me out.

Imagine if you will; you are driving a hearse on your way to the morgue. Your recently deceased passenger, zipped up in a body bag in the back, was a wonderful 91 year old woman who’d led a full life. However, it seems she’s not finished living aforementioned full life just yet, and she’s a bit cold, so she unzips her body bag, sits up, and asks you for a spot of hot tea!

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a reply to: nighthawk1954

im just guessing here so i could be wrong but.....
i dont think she was dead

originally posted by: Grovit
a reply to: nighthawk1954

im just guessing here so i could be wrong but.....
i dont think she was dead

Or she an Ebola zombie!

Maybe she had soe kind of a seizure that left her temporarily paralyzed ??? .....she must have been freaking out waking up In a bag!

a reply to: nighthawk1954

You know, I was talking to my husband last night about just this very thing.

Prior to the advanced medicine we have today, people "woke from the dead" often enough to have vigils over the dead and what not, just in case they "came back to life"

I was wondering what they thought about those people, who were probably in coma's and thought to be dead... did the people long ago think these people were touched by God? Or as another poster mentioned... zombies... lol

I do wonder what people thought about those who woke up way back when.... it would be terribly scarey to think someone dead and have them "come back to life"...

She was only partly dead.
I see images of British zombie hordes wandering the streets moaning "Teaaaa."

She would have had to throw me in the bag and would have been the one taking me to the morgue because if I was there when she got up out of that bag I would have been scared too death, that would be so creepy.

Imagine how much this happens but they don't regain consciousness until it is too late??

a reply to: nighthawk1954

Today we live in a throw away world, we even throw the elderly away forgetting that they are our own tomorrow, gone now are the days of vigils when the dead would be kept in the parlor until they started to rot as a sign or respect and to mourn them as they lay there in there open caskets.

The doctor who never even checked properly for signs of life should be struck off as he is obviously a quack who must have Assumed because of her age that she was dead, I agree likely a seizure though there have been enough OOBE account's of people claiming they were sent back that as old as she is this lady may still have a purpose to fulfill on this earth, God bless her and may she live many years more, she has seen the second world war come and go and is a living memory of some of the most important moments in her country's history so they should truly treasure her and all those like her.

a reply to: nighthawk1954

Only the best paramedics could deal with that situation.

"Hernandez- Get me two cups of Earl Grey pronto! better get some shortbread biscuits as well, this one's a fighter!"

Ah, that is one tough Polish lady!
And she asked for tea, and not schnapps?

So did the doctor not feel a pulse?
Or was the pulse too weak?
The article doesn't mention it. It just says that the doctor won't be facing any criminal charges, but they are investigating.

originally posted by: Grovit
a reply to: nighthawk1954

im just guessing here so i could be wrong but.....
i dont think she was dead

You may be on to something.

At what point is it too late? In regaining consciousness that is?' I would think if you can regain consciousness it's never too late.
Too late would mean it's not possible to regain consciousness.
Just jerking your chain. Sorry.

a reply to: Shana91aus

a reply to: AutumnWitch657

We read that post by Shana entirely differently! What I took the 'too late' to mean was being buried already then regaining consciousness!! How scary is that? I do think, though, that nowadays they drain the blood before burial--ain't nobody coming back to life...

a reply to: nighthawk1954

This is more common than people think. we actually do not understand death that well and what is truly dead. I have been reading a book by a scientist who had a syndrome where the person dies and then comes back to life sometimes in minutes sometimes in days. They don't know why but the brain activity shows death.
Google came back to life and you will see many cases.

It's thought that this phenomenon is, if anything, under-reported. More people are coming back than we think. Whatever is causing the phenomenon, it's interesting that people might, for some reason, come back from the seeming dead unaided.

In something called the Lazarus Phenomenon, people actually wake from apparent death — after resuscitation attempts have been stopped.

io9.com...

I wonder if they stopped and got her some tea?

I'm sure that they needed to stop at a restaurant to change their shorts anyway.

a reply to: nighthawk1954

A cup of hot tea? After being declared dead and waking up in a body bag, I would be asking for something a lot stronger than a cup of tea!

a reply to: Habit4ming

Yes spot on thats exactly what i meant, scary thought isn't it.

I know some people think that cultures like Maoris that keep their deceased loved ones with them for a week and lay with the body and grieve etc is really odd and creepy but atleast in them cultures mistakes like this are bound not too happen.

Reminds me of something i read on here recently aswell where a woman woke up in the morgue and her family was suing because she ended up dieing anyway but they found her laying on her stomach and numerous injuries from trying to get out i assume, so very sad i can imagine this happens alot and goes undetected, especially with how over worked people are in hospitals etc.

a reply to: Char-Lee

That sounds like a really interesting book Char, i think subjects like this are definitely worth looking in too. Clearly they don't know everything that they think they do about the human brain and what it does at death.

originally posted by: OpinionatedB
a reply to: nighthawk1954

You know, I was talking to my husband last night about just this very thing.

Prior to the advanced medicine we have today, people "woke from the dead" often enough to have vigils over the dead and what not, just in case they "came back to life"

I was wondering what they thought about those people, who were probably in coma's and thought to be dead... did the people long ago think these people were touched by God? Or as another poster mentioned... zombies... lol

I do wonder what people thought about those who woke up way back when.... it would be terribly scarey to think someone dead and have them "come back to life"...

From what I remember, families would bury the "unsure" dead with a bell on the surface with a string going to the coffin underground. If the "dead" wakes up, they can pull the string to ring the bell so they will get dug out and join the living again.

Obviously something just slowed her pulse and breathing, to the point where she was mistakenly called dead...or some such thing...crazy how that sort of thing can happen though.