As the man approached the body of
his brother lying in a morgue in
Salvador, Brazil, he noticed that the
body inside was squirming. Walter Goncalves realised that his
brother, Valdelucio, had not died at
the age of 54 but in fact had a few
more years left in him. Doctors at the Menandro de Farias
General Hospital had thought
Valdelucio Goncalves had died
following respiratory failure and
multiple organ failure. Yet two hours
later he was found alive in a body bag by his brother. After the brother alerted the morgue,
Goncalves was taken back to the
hospital for treatment and was then
photographed alive, both thumbs up. The hospital in Salvador has now
opened an investigation into the
incident. Goncalves' niece, Patricia, told Correio
24 Horas: “The bag was closed and
moving. Up and down as if he was
breathing. Then he (the brother)
called everyone to see what was
happening. He was with the feet tied and with cotton in the nose and ears." This is not the first time someone has
been presumed deceased mistakenly. Earlier this year, workers at a US
funeral home were shocked after a
body they were preparing to embalm
suddenly woke up kicking. Despite
being examined by the Mississippi
county coroner, 78-year-old Walter Williams came back to life hours after
he had been officially pronounced
dead.

Source: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazilian-man-found-alive-in-body-bag-in-morgue-9696225.html