Mississippi man, Walter Williams, was declared dead Wednesday night. Coroner Dexter Howard received the call from Williams' hospice nurse, who told Howard that the 78-year-old had passed away. Howard and Byron Porter from Porter & Sons Funeral Home in Lexington drove to Williams' home to collect the body for funeral preparations. Howard checked Williams' pulse about 9 p.m. and pronounced him dead. The coroner completed his paperwork and placed Williams in a body bag, but on the way to the funeral home, the body bag moved. Once in the embalming room, the man who was supposedly dead began to kick his legs and breath. They immediately called an ambulance. Paramedics arrived and hooked Williams up to monitors. Sure enough, he had a heartbeat. The only reasonable explanation Howard could think of, Howard said, is that Williams' defibrillator, implanted beneath the skin on his chest, jump-started his heart after he was placed in the body bag.
Wow, this is some story. Is it a miracle? I don't know if i would agree with that. But i do know that it is a miracle that someone saw he was alive before it was too late. What if he was left alone during the time when he was breathing and no one saw. he could have actually died. i don't know how much longer this man will live, but wont that be a cool story for his kids/grandkids to tell people...
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/28/us/dead-man-comes-back-life/index.html?hpt=us_c2
I would totally freak out if I were the man embalming him. It will be interesting to learn how exactly his heart started again, or if he never really died to begin with.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely incredible! I cannot believe how lucky it was that the embalmer saw the man breathing!
ReplyDeletethat is INSANE I can't imagine being brought back to life by the epquipment INSIDE of me! He certainly has a story to tell. I wonder if the coroner is traumatized from seeing a pronounced dead man come back too life though.
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