A woman in Ecuador was found alive inside a coffin after being mistakenly pronounced dead from a stroke.
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the woman, known as Bella Yolanda Montoya Castro, was initially declared deceased by medical personnel. Her body was then prepared for burial and placed in a coffin. However, just hours before the scheduled funeral, a noise was heard coming from the sealed casket, leading to its immediate opening.
Family members present at the scene were astounded to find the woman still alive and breathing inside the coffin. She was swiftly removed and rushed to a nearby hospital for urgent medical attention.
And, the money quote:
The woman is currently back in the intensive care unit at the same hospital that pronounced her dead
A woman in Ecuador was found alive inside a coffin after being mistakenly pronounced dead from a stroke.
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the woman, known as Bella Yolanda Montoya Castro, was initially declared deceased by medical personnel. Her body was then prepared for burial and placed in a coffin. However, just hours before the scheduled funeral, a noise was heard coming from the sealed casket, leading to its immediate opening.
Family members present at the scene were astounded to find the woman still alive and breathing inside the coffin. She was swiftly removed and rushed to a nearby hospital for urgent medical attention.
And, the money quote:
The woman is currently back in the intensive care unit at the same hospital that pronounced her dead
Back when I was 12 I saw a movie , Premature Burial, which made a dark and fearful tale about this. It included digging up a burial and finding the person had torn the inside to shreads before finally dying. The movie was one of a number of gothic tales ,Hammer films, I believe which held a fascination for me around that age. For reasons I do not know that movie struck a note of ongoing terror for me which reoccurred for days afterwords. I remember the age because stuck in my memory is sitting with the other deacons in church getting ready to pass the sacrament I was quaking with fear over the movie. I recovered after a few days and have not to my knowledge suffered any longterm problem.Many of the films were Poe stories and I was a fan of reading Poe. (I do not remember if premature burial is a Poe short story.
The only other movie which comes to mind for ongoing terrors for me was the Blob. Its a somewhat better movie and science fiction sort rather than Poe gothic.
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checking google, yes the is a Poe story which was the movie inspiration.
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and google tells me that the movie was not a Hammer film. well correct genre i guess.
It’s not new to the Ipsa household. The lovely Ms. Ipsa insists on being cremated for fear or awakening six feet under. And no bell.
No need. The embalming process would render her very, VERY deceased.
Which casts some doubt on the veracity of the story. Unless embalming is not a standard procedure for preparing bodies for burial in Ecuador, like it is almost everywhere else nowadays, it seems extremely unlikely she could have survived the preparation for burial procedures.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
It’s not new to the Ipsa household. The lovely Ms. Ipsa insists on being cremated for fear or awakening six feet under. And no bell.
I would also prefer cremation rather than burial, but not because of any phobia of waking up in a buried coffin. Since there is zero chance that I will ever again have any use of the exact same material composing my corpse (even if resurrection is real thing), I would much rather my remains be cremated and dispersed back into the environment where they can be recycled into other living things, including other humans. To me it seems an unconscionable waste to remove valuable real estate from usable production in order to sequester human remains from the environment that otherwise would be utilized to create and sustain new life. If my body is to preserved at all, it would be better, I think, as a donation to some medical school to help train new medical students, in return for them eventually paying the cremation expense when it no longer usable. It is my understanding that there is a chronic shortage of cadavers for medical training purposes.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
