Dead Mississippi man begins breathing in embalming room, coroner says- Alix Kast

A man named Walter Williams, 78 years old, was declared dead on Wednesday night. A hospice nurse and a family member called Coroner Dexter Howard, and he and Byron Porter (from Porter and Sons Funeral Home) picked up the body for funeral preparations. Howard checked the man's pulse at 9 p.m. and declared him dead. The body was placed in a body bag and was taken to the funeral home. But then, something rather unexpected happened. The bag moved. They realized that his legs were moving (as if they were kicking) and that the supposedly dead man had begun to breathe. They called an ambulance, and when he was hooked up to the monitors, he had a heartbeat. He was taken to a hospital. Howard said that he had never seen anything like it, and his hypothesis was that Williams' defibrillator had to have jump-started his heart. On Thursday, he was still weak, but he was actually conscious and was talking with his family members. 

Every once in a while, you hear about someone who was believed to be dead and then taken to a morgue, where it turns out that they were actually in a very deep coma, or something along those lines. I'd hate to have been that coroner, because you'd feel like you were starring in a zombie movie. But in all seriousness, hearing about something this extreme is really incredible. The people involved were calling it a miracle, and I'd have to say that it comes pretty close to being one. It will be interesting to hear what his doctors think happened, or if they can actually find out what brought him back to life.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/28/us/dead-man-comes-back-life/index.html?hpt=us_c2