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A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation.

Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok, posted a video on its Facebook page, showing a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pick-up truck, slightly moving her arms and head, leaving temple staff bewildered.

Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, told The Associated Press on Monday that the 65-year-old woman’s brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated.

He said they heard a faint knock coming from the coffin.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 110 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

According to Pairat, the brother said his sister had been bedridden for about two years, when her health deteriorated and she became unresponsive, appearing to stop breathing two days ago. The brother then placed her in a coffin and made the 500-kilometer (300-mile) journey to a hospital in Bangkok, to which the woman had previously expressed a wish to donate her organs.

The hospital refused to accept the brother’s offer as he didn’t have an official death certificate, Pairat said. His temple offers a free cremation service, which is why the brother approached them on Sunday, but was also refused due to the missing document.

The temple manager said that while he was explaining how to get a death certificate when they heard the knocking. They then assessed her and sent her to a nearby hospital.

Thank God that everyone insisted on a death certificate. One regulatory misstep in this story and you either gut or burn someone alive.

That being said, knocking coming from the inside of a coffin is top 10 on my list of things that would make my blood immediately run cold.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 51 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Apparently dead people waking up happens from time to time. Sometimes vital signs are really hard to detect without hospital equipment.

And usually they do actually check to make sure someone is dead before harvesting their organs.

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That's why you always do a wake!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Holy crap! Is that where the term comes from or is this just a really good pun?

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It means to keep watch and part of that is to make sure they are really dead.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Making sure they are really dead could be done a couple of ways...

Since embalming happens before a wake, I guess someone has "made sure" they are really dead before the wake even begins...

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

TIL that's why it's called that.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently dead people waking up happens from time to time.

It happened often enough that embalming became commonplace to ensure that the dead couldn't wake up.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago

Or double tap, just to be sure.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

That "usually" is making me a little uncomfortable.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I would hope that whoever would be in charge of organ retrieval would check for those things regardless of death certificate, but at least it didn't get that far.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The organ harvesting makes no sense in any case. You can't run a corpse 300 miles down the highway and expect anything salvageable.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 19 hours ago

True, but I think that the dude was just trying his best to fulfill their wishes. Grief leads people to do odd things sometimes.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Actually, it probably would have been better for it to get that far, for a medical professional to actually assess her earlier...

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Makes me think that there was a reason that he didn't try to get a death certificate.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, I doubt there was ill intent here. Sounds like dude is poor and doing his best. Otherwise, why bother to try to get a free cremation or organ transplant? A random hole in the ground would be a much more effective hiding spot.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Except that is murder to anyone who didn't see her dead

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well shit, time to start building bells on coffins again

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

This wouldn't have happened if the dumbasses at the hospital in Bangkok would have actually done their jobs, and had a doctor check for vital signs before merely taking the guy for his word, and just going with the assumption that she was dead before rejecting her.

Secondly, nobody at the hospital found it even slightly odd that a dude just rolls in with a body and says, "she's dead. Cremation, plz"? Instead they respond with, "produce a death certificate or fuck off". What the actual fuck is going on over there in Thailand, that basic due diligence doesn't even cross their minds? I would have been asking, "isn't that your job, assholes?"

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Absolutely, even the most basic of BLS training starts with…check the pulse. Skipping that step was a pretty goddamn big oops on everyone involved.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Can't even take a nap in a coffin anymore

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 20 hours ago

"I was feeling a little nappy, and that wooden box seemed so cozy." Eep!

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 16 points 18 hours ago

And the response of staff at the temple was to take a video and post it on Facebook? That's kinda upsetting.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nonsense, you'll be stone dead in a moment!

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 18 hours ago

I feel HAPPY! I feel ha-thunk

[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

"Bring out your dead!"...

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I ATEN'T DEAD