Brazilian woman wakes up in her coffin hours before she would have been buried alive

A woman being prepared for burial gave funeral parlour workers quite a shock when she came to life inside her coffin. Maria das Dores da Conceicao, 88, is currently hospitalised in the intensive care unit of the Municipal hospital which declared her officially dead a few days ago. The Brazilian's body movements and breathing, spotted in her coffin at a local funeral parlour, resulted in the coffin and body being rushed back to the hospital, where she is recovering in the intensive care ward.

Her granddaughter Noeme Silva Amâncio, 31, was among the first family members to greet her grandmum back to life. She said 'when I got to the hospital 's first emergency aid entrance, I sighted grandma in her coffin, which was inside the funeral hearse. She was breathing and moving about on one side of the coffin more than when she had been initially hospitalised.'



The Mayor's office of this provincial city near the state capital of Belo Horizonte, declared in an official note that Police were investigating the case in order to clarify the details to the shocked family. The note added that Mrs. Conceicao entered the hospital last Tuesday morning with a medical history of arterial hypertension, obstructed arteries and Alzheimer's. She had been bedridden and brought the hospital complaining of pains.

'Since Wednesday, 22 December, the patient did not present any signs of being alive and was declared officially dead at 16:50 and brought to the funeral parlour at 20:30.' Custodia Amancio, daughter of the resuscitated Brazilian woman says 'we are happy to know my mother is alive and unhappy with the lack of respect due her. We are still not sure if we will sue the municipality and hospital. She continues in the intensive ward treatment ward and we are praying that she will improve quickly.'