Thai woman found alive in coffin after being brought in for cremation (apnews.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 21:40
https://lemmy.world/post/39258170

A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation.

Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok, posted a video on its Facebook page, showing a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pick-up truck, slightly moving her arms and head, leaving temple staff bewildered.

Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, told The Associated Press on Monday that the 65-year-old woman’s brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated.

He said they heard a faint knock coming from the coffin.

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WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 22:26 next collapse

Can’t even take a nap in a coffin anymore

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 24 Nov 22:51 collapse

"I was feeling a little nappy, and that wooden box seemed so cozy." Eep!

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Nov 22:47 next collapse

According to Pairat, the brother said his sister had been bedridden for about two years, when her health deteriorated and she became unresponsive, appearing to stop breathing two days ago. The brother then placed her in a coffin and made the 500-kilometer (300-mile) journey to a hospital in Bangkok, to which the woman had previously expressed a wish to donate her organs.

The hospital refused to accept the brother’s offer as he didn’t have an official death certificate, Pairat said. His temple offers a free cremation service, which is why the brother approached them on Sunday, but was also refused due to the missing document.

The temple manager said that while he was explaining how to get a death certificate when they heard the knocking. They then assessed her and sent her to a nearby hospital.

Thank God that everyone insisted on a death certificate. One regulatory misstep in this story and you either gut or burn someone alive.

That being said, knocking coming from the inside of a coffin is top 10 on my list of things that would make my blood immediately run cold.

frongt@lemmy.zip on 24 Nov 23:25 next collapse

Apparently dead people waking up happens from time to time. Sometimes vital signs are really hard to detect without hospital equipment.

And usually they do actually check to make sure someone is dead before harvesting their organs.

insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 23:36 next collapse

That’s why you always do a wake!

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 25 Nov 00:55 next collapse

Holy crap! Is that where the term comes from or is this just a really good pun?

SereneSadie@quokk.au on 25 Nov 01:27 next collapse

Really loose recollection and paraphrasing;

Trace contaminations in alcohol could lead heavy drinkers to pass out in a coma-like state for potentially days at a time. Given the frequency, holding a wake to be absolutely sure it wasn’t one of these poisonings became a useful custom.

And then of course, changes and regulations mean the contaminations are weeded out of the process, but the ritual itself persists because of human habit.

jj4211@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 15:02 collapse

Of course now they generally embalm before a wake… So no one is waking up for their wake…

insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 10:56 collapse

It means to keep watch and part of that is to make sure they are really dead.

jj4211@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 15:01 collapse

Making sure they are really dead could be done a couple of ways…

Since embalming happens before a wake, I guess someone has “made sure” they are really dead before the wake even begins…

Psythik@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 01:20 collapse

TIL that’s why it’s called that.

ronl2k@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 23:45 next collapse

Apparently dead people waking up happens from time to time.

It happened often enough that embalming became commonplace to ensure that the dead couldn’t wake up.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip on 25 Nov 00:54 collapse

Or double tap, just to be sure.

Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 05:41 collapse

That “usually” is making me a little uncomfortable.

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 23:56 next collapse

I would hope that whoever would be in charge of organ retrieval would check for those things regardless of death certificate, but at least it didn’t get that far.

shalafi@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 23:59 next collapse

The organ harvesting makes no sense in any case. You can’t run a corpse 300 miles down the highway and expect anything salvageable.

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Nov 00:15 collapse

True, but I think that the dude was just trying his best to fulfill their wishes. Grief leads people to do odd things sometimes.

jj4211@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 15:03 collapse

Actually, it probably would have been better for it to get that far, for a medical professional to actually assess her earlier…

sik0fewl@lemmy.ca on 25 Nov 01:03 next collapse

Makes me think that there was a reason that he didn’t try to get a death certificate.

Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Nov 01:47 collapse

Eh, I doubt there was ill intent here. Sounds like dude is poor and doing his best. Otherwise, why bother to try to get a free cremation or organ transplant? A random hole in the ground would be a much more effective hiding spot.

systemglitch@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 13:39 collapse

Except that is murder to anyone who didn’t see her dead

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 25 Nov 11:26 collapse
thenextguy@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 23:40 next collapse

“I’m not dead!”

slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works on 24 Nov 23:49 next collapse

“Bring out your dead!”…

absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz on 24 Nov 23:52 collapse

Yes you are!

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 25 Nov 00:31 collapse

I feel HAPPY! I feel ha-thunk

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works on 24 Nov 23:58 next collapse

I ATEN’T DEAD

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 00:29 next collapse

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samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 00:45 collapse

Nonsense, you’ll be stone dead in a moment!

oppy1984@lemdro.id on 25 Nov 04:25 collapse

I feel happy!

samus12345@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 14:28 collapse

thunk

tiramichu@sh.itjust.works on 25 Nov 00:34 next collapse

And the response of staff at the temple was to take a video and post it on Facebook? That’s kinda upsetting.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 02:24 collapse

Well shit, time to start building bells on coffins again

Psythik@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 03:32 collapse

This wouldn’t have happened if the dumbasses at the hospital in Bangkok would have actually done their jobs, and had a doctor check for vital signs before merely taking the guy for his word, and just going with the assumption that she was dead before rejecting her.

Secondly, nobody at the hospital found it even slightly odd that a dude just rolls in with a body and says, “she’s dead. Cremation, plz”? Instead they respond with, “produce a death certificate or fuck off”. What the actual fuck is going on over there in Thailand, that basic due diligence doesn’t even cross their minds? I would have been asking, “isn’t that your job, assholes?”

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world on 25 Nov 04:10 collapse

Absolutely, even the most basic of BLS training starts with…check the pulse. Skipping that step was a pretty goddamn big oops on everyone involved.