Women wakes up inside her own coffin after coroner declared her dead

An 88-year-old woman was nearly buried alive after she woke up inside a coffin.

The pensioner was found seemingly unresponsive by her husband, 87, on Friday morning at their home in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Assuming she was dead, he called for emergency services, who promptly dispatched a coroner to the scene.

‘She wasn’t moving, she wasn’t breathing,’ he told Nedělní Blesk.

The coroner pitched up and declared the elderly retiree dead, but the undertakers then arrived to find quite the opposite.

After the ‘dead’ lady was placed in the coffin, she opened her eyes and started breathing.

Reports in Czech media are conflicted as to whether the pensioner suddenly opened her eyes in the coffin or whether workers realised she was still breathing.

Either way, she was alive and the pensioner was taken to the hospital, where she is still being treated.

The woman’s husband added: ‘The [funeral services] workers put her in a coffin, and when they were right here, they found out that she was alive.

‘It’s serious. I’m completely unhappy about it.’

Police have said it is now investigating possible misconduct by the coroner. The coroner’s, 1 Koronerská, apologised profusely for the mix-up and said three times in the past they had received calls to say a person was dead, but they turned out alive.

This is also not the first time someone has ‘come back from the dead’.

Morgue workers in a crematorium in Jhunjhunu City, India were shocked when a supposedly dead man began breathing in a crematorium in Jhunjhunu City, India in November last year.

Footage showed Rohitash wrapped in a blanket, opening his eyes and looking dazed.

An ambulance was quickly called to take him to Rajkiya Bhagwan Das Khetan (BDK) Hospital, where he later died.

A similar incident happened in Kenya, when a man who was declared dead by doctors woke up three hours later while workers prepared his body in a morgue.

The man was immediately transferred to the hospital mortuary where he was prepared to be embalmed by morgue attendants

Metro has contacted the 1. Koronerská for additional comment.

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