man declared dead found ALIVE in morgue!

[Jill Monroe]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6875358/?GT1=6065


talk about gross incompetence!:eek:

[Lauren Collins]

Well there you have it. That's my home state for you. :) lol But yeah, that's awesome! I mean, better alive than dead, right? :p

[Oblivion]

What the hell? How do you mistake someone for dead?!:stupid: Honestly, I hope the people who made that 'assumption' get checked out, not just suspended- I mean really, how can you not know someone is still alive? Think of how you would feel if you woke up in a damn cabinet at a morgue:igitt:.

[Jessica Hamby]

LOL..... Did they check all the other bodies in the morgue for signs of life? can you imagine studying a dead body in a MORGUE and suddenly, your subject starts breathing?! That's like, straight out of a horror movie. That would be so freaky.

If they declared him dead at the accident site, they may have been in too much of a rush to notice a shallow pulse. A badly injured body that's not moving or breathing looks dead to me, lol. They might have felt no pulse and moved on to save someone elses life....

My Dad is a hospice nurse, he drives to his patients house and cares for them. Most of his patients are elderly and ALL of his patients have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. He makes sure they're being fed properly and taken care of by the family, and that they're comfortable on meds until they pass. He always gets calls in the middle of the night when his patients die, he has to go to the house and pronounce them "Dead" I once asked him WHY he had to do that... couldn't they see the person was dead? Well, we were joking around and his response was "Yeah, but they like to hear from me 'Yep... they're dead!'" His more serious response said that vitals have to be taken and its a big rigamorole that has to be gone through when pronouncing someone dead. Maybe the medics at the scene were in too much of a rush to properly "pronouce" the man dead?

[Tempest]

Well if the pulse gets too low, you can't feel it in the wrist or neck, so it is easy to mistake it for no pulse at all. It's happened before lol.

But people need to watch what their doing x.x Lex...that happened to me LOL. We visited the morgue during me medical camp and this dude was laying on the rack on purpose and jumped out at us as we passed. I nearly tinkled myself x.x

[Jessica Hamby]

ROFL.... I'd have hit the fucker. I was once taking the dog outside for a bathroom run at night a few years back, and my brother thought it'd be funny to sneak up on me and scare the shit out of me. I didn't even know it was him, LMAO, when he grabbed me i whipped around and punched him RIGHT in the face. He walked around for a week with a black eye, lol, and he NEVER snuck up on me again.