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Woman Wakes Up at Own Funeral, Dies of Shock

No, this is not an Onion headline

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 24, 2011 12:32 PM CDT

(Newser) – There’s irony, and then there’s the story of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, a 49-year-old Russian woman who woke up at her own funeral only to have a heart attack and die when she realized what was going on. Mukhametzyanov had been falsely declared dead after collapsing with chest pains, the Daily Mail reports. When she awoke, she was lying in a coffin, with mourners filing past and saying prayers. She screamed, and passed out again.

“Her eyes fluttered, and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital,” her husband says. “But she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.” The hospital says it’s investigating the incident. “I am very angry, and I want answers,” the husband says. “She wasn’t dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.”

Coffins are bad places to wake up.
Coffins are bad places to wake up.   (Shutterstock)
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donwine
Mar 2, 2013 12:22 AM CST
Embalming fluid is formaldehyde which is lethal. If she was embalmed - she did not wake up. Cells die at different rates - some taking days. Movement can happen but it is rare. The added comments are just that. 
DoninLouisiana
Sep 9, 2012 11:20 PM CDT
I don't believe this story for one minute with today's medicine & technology, too many ways to confirm death.
Tracegazer
Aug 13, 2012 7:46 PM CDT
Kartoff-  This also was the origin of the term "graveyard shift".  People who took the nightshift to listen for the bells were the "graveyard shift".
 

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