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An 82-year-old man woke up back to life miraculously in a mortuary, leaving his bereaved relatives and doctors shocked and confused, more than one hour after he was declared dead with his heart coming to a complete stop while receiving kidney dialysis.
The man was saved from certain death after family members witnessed the slight movement of a linen sheet covering his body by chance after he was transferred to a morgue for freezing storage at a hospital in Bucheon, a satellite city west of Seoul on Tuesday.
Doctors were rushed down to the morgue, detected a feeble sign of breathing, and transferred him back to an intensive care unit where he regained his consciousness, according to multiple news reports.
The jaws of doctor dropped a mile because the man has been recuperating fast enough to take a meal better than before, according to Yonhap News Agency. "This case is completely new to our doctors, totally mysterious," a hospital official was quoted as saying.
Still, doctors remain confused as they had tried hard to resuscitate the man, watched by relatives before he was medically pronounced dead following proper procedures.
Other than coming back from the dead, the man also experienced a mysterious change to his body. Before his near-death experience, he suffered from dementia, but now his conditions improved dramatically so that he recognizes relatives.
Cases of people returning back to life after being declared dead are very rarely witnessed around the globe. In November 2014, a 91-year-old Polish woman woke up in a morgue 11hours after being declared dead. She was discovered to be alive when a mortuary worker noticed the woman moving in a body bag inside a refrigerator.
In January 2014, a 24-year-old Kenyan man sent scared mortuary workers running for their life when he woke up in a morgue, 15 hours after being declared dead.
Medical experts quite cannot explain such situations, but under controlled conditions, with reduced temperature and unconscious state which a person's heart beats really slow with hardly any breathing, the body of the person could enter a hibernation-like state with no physical damage to brain and tissue cells and come back to life when the condition is right.
Park Sae-jin = swatchsjpo@ajunews.com
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Park Sae-jin
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