South African woman found alive in morgue fridge after being pronounced dead
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https://news.sky.com/story/south-african-woman-found-alive-in-morgue-after-being-pronounced-dead-11424437
A South African woman has been discovered alive in a morgue shortly after being declared dead in a car crash. The woman was found breathing by mortuary technicians several hours
after being certified dead by paramedics at the scene of the pile-up outside Carletonville, southwest of Johannesburg.
"We followed our procedures - we've got no idea how it happened," Distress Alert operations manager Gerrit Bradnick told AFP. "The crew is absolutely devastated - we're not in the
business of declaring living people dead, we're in the business of keeping people alive."
The unnamed woman from Gauteng had "showed no signs of life" following the traffic accident in the early hours of 24 June, Mr Bradnick added.
She was found alive in a morgue fridge several hours after the crash in which the victims' car rolled, throwing all three occupants out of the vehicle - killing two of them. "All the right
checks were done - breathing, pulse - so the patient was declared deceased," Mr Bradnick said.
After being discovered alive, the woman was taken to Carletonville hospital where she is now recovering. "Paramedics are trained to determine death, not us," a source at the
Carletonville mortuary told the Sowetan newspaper.
shout out to all the people who've been buried alive mistakenly throughout history
absolutely nightmarish. can't think of anything worse that can happen to a living person.
Didn't they use to have bells that had a snare into the ground and coffin so in case of you got burries alive you could signal outsiders?
'Saved by the bell'
Why are paramedics determining if someone is dead? Shouldn’t a doctor be making that call?
I think being trapped in a viscous liquid may be even with live burial.
That was before they typically remove all of your organs. This woman was lucky there was a backlog.
there's a decent number of people who have woken up from the dead right at the start of autopsy
Which is why when I die, I want to be cremated. Worst case scenario I kick back alive as the fire is already engulfing me and then it's just a short bit of pain and then I'm dead for sure anyway.
These days even if you're buried they remove all your organs and shit. If you wake up from that...
Only if you're signed up as an organ-donor, at least to my knowledge.
I'm gonna keep saying this: My end goal is just having most of my body turned into fish food which is used to feed the fish in the rivers I fished as a child, namely Cattaragus Creek and 18 Mile Creek.
Any ashes that are kept by my family, I'm hopeful that it'll be used to as coke ash for creating a knife/sword.
Yes. I have all of this listed in my will already.
Not all the time. I know it's a thing here and in Commonwealth countries that medics can call a death. It usually involves someone getting on a radio with medical control at the hospitals communications box or something similar and talking to a physician, but not always, as far as I'm aware. The medic on my first DOA went through the process before we handed it off to the bolice dep't.
I wouldn't exactly be surprised if these medics aren't at the same standard ours our, though.
I want my body-meat ground up into hot dogs to send to my ex wife and Hulk Hogan so I know how you feel
I always wondered if cases like these are just freak accidents/mistakes or there's a one in a million chance for someone to autonomously recover from having no pulse/breathing
More likely accidents. When determining if someone is dead you check multiple factors, each inaccurate to a degree. It's a matter of chance when those inaccuracies coincide and every check points to dead when that isn't the case.
This is South Africa so I'm not familiar with their practices but when I was working if I came across a patient with injuries "incompatible with life" such as their brain taking a vacation from their skull they were pronounced dead on scene. Other states have wider/narrower scopes when declaring a patient deceased but something like this happening in South Africa, after a quick investigation of their "paramedic" programs does not surprise me.
if only they had done that in this case before putting her in the fridge, we could have avoided this whole fiasco
Personally, I'm a traditionalist. I'd like my body to be impaled Vlad the Impaler style and displayed on my former middle school lawn in all its glory.
At least then it's quick assuming you can't breathe the liquid, being burred alive is slow
Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rtu1Va-dnM
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