Dead Man found alive in coffin

The body of a motorcycle accident victim, pronounced dead at the scene of a crash last Friday, was sent to a funeral parlor where his family later found him alive in a coffin, the Southern Metropolitan News reported Sunday.

"My father noticed that my brother's face was very red," said Zhang Houbin, a younger brother of the accident victim, Zhang Houming, 46, of Neijiang, Sichuan Province. "We checked his pulse and chest, and found he was still alive!"

The family called for an ambulance. Medics from Neijiang No. 6 Hospital quickly arrived and found Zhang's body temperature at 36.8 C, his pulse rate at 74 beats per minute and breathing 18 times per minute.

Unfortunately, Zhang died at the hospital one hour later. The hospital said the cause of death was severe brain trauma.

The family refused to move Zhang's corpse at the hospital morgue, and demanded an explanation for the medical mistakes that sent an ambulance patient to a funeral parlor instead of an emergency room.

According to reports, Zhang's motorcycle crashed into a bus at 2:30 pm Friday on his way home from work at a building site in Lingjia township.

A co-worker surnamed You arrived at the spot at 3:10 pm and called for emergency medical service. The city's Chinese Medical Hospital sent an ambulance. But it arrived more than one hour late because of a "severe traffic jam on the highway."

Source:Global Times

The family apparently is suing the hospital for RMB1.5 mil. It's such a tragedy it actually happened because some incompetent doctor on the accident scene made a careless mistake. My friend says "Classic case!" 

It doesn't say how they discovered he was still alive. But it can be hilarious when you think about it. Family mourns the dead, then suddenly "BOM BOM BOM" sound emerges from coffin. Seriously eerie!