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So, this woman in Russia had a heart attack, appearently the doctor's declared her dead, they have a funeral, she wakes up in the casket, looks around, freaks out, has another heart attack and than actually dies....or something like that. Here is the link:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-exists-russian-woman-dies-of-heart-attack-after-waking-up-during-her-own-funeral/

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So, this woman in Russia had a heart attack, appearently the doctor's declared her dead, they have a funeral, she wakes up in the casket, looks around, freaks out, has another heart attack and than actually dies....or something like that. Here is the link:

http://www.mediaite....er-own-funeral/

I hate when that happens.

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The <dies after waking up> part is the rough part. Yikes.

Sort of a twisted solo version Romeo and Juliet.

As you go further back in time this (waking up after being declare dead) was actually (fairly) common. Advances in medical understanding luckily make this a less and less common as time goes on.. I read an article once were they tried to (somehow) do a study of how often people that were what we would consider "still alive" (its relative to the medical understanding at the time, as what was "dead" 100 years ago is often "relivable/ able to be stabilized" now) were buried alive. They had a hard time coming up with hard data, but form various news stories and journal entries and random scraps of information here and there, apparently it was what we would consider common. Scary idea. Really wouldn't like to wake up 6 feet under, and that is essentially so deep that , inside a coffin it would be really rough for anyone to hear you kickin n screaming unless they were RIGHT there. You'd probably just die anyhow, in really painful way. Ugh.

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I remember a conversation I had with an ER surgeon. I asked him what he thought the creepiest part of his job was. He said that what bothered him most was not his job, in particular, but knowing that the moment of death is really a more indeterminate thing than most people realize. He said that in the movies, they'll show the EKG thing or whatever that is and you will know a person is dead because it completely flatlines. He says it's really more messy than that. The heart, he says, continues to contract, albeit often irregularly and not at all in concert up to four hours or even days after a person is declared clinically dead. It's just that after a few minutes of poor heart tissue coordination, areas of major organs experience enough tissue death that resurrection becomes increasingly less likely, but not impossible. If the heart does begin to beat in an organized fashion, even if it beats only a couple times per minute, it might provide enough oxygen to the heart, lungs, and brain that the person could revive, even days afterward.

That's when I remembered an article, in some collection like "News of the Weird," about a lady who fell in her house from a stroke and lay undiscovered from what coroners on the scene estimated to be three days. Her abdomen was bloated from rot and her legs badly deteriorated. She wasn't dead, though. Her heart had continued to beat and though the manner in which she fell prevented the blood from circulating to her lower extremities, this condition did, weirdly enough, provide just enough oxygen to her brain that she was still alive and soon conscious after they loaded her in the van. They took her to the hospital, but she didn't survive the amputations. How gross is that?

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