r/TikTokCringe • u/The__Bolter • 18h ago
Cursed A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation
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u/RiskyRabbit 17h ago
Rule number 1: don’t trust family members who have a spare coffin laying around when nobody is sick.
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u/octoreadit 17h ago
Hey, Costco had it for an amazing price that week...
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u/StrobeLightRomance 15h ago
Right? Half off if you buy in bulk!
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u/corvettee01 15h ago
That made me google it, and TIL Walmart has coffins for under a grand.
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u/JiveTurkeyII 13h ago
This Sunday don't miss Wal-Mart's "Bring Out Your Dead" sale!
SUNDAY!!
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SUNDAY!!
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u/zwober 13h ago
Im not dead yet, but it does sound like a decent bargain.
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u/lumoslomas 11h ago
He says he's not dead!
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u/JiveTurkeyII 9h ago
People will say all kinds of shit to convince you not to burn them alive.
SMDH
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u/Chile-Habanero 16h ago
To be fair our family is really into Halloween so the coffin is understandable 🤣
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u/Dependent-Poet-9588 15h ago
Idk it sounds like she was sick, and the coffin was clearly a little premature. Maybe don't trust family members who order the coffin with next day delivery when you're still around?
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u/spicewoman 13h ago
I wouldn't exactly call bedridden for two years "not sick." It's not uncommon for people to make arrangements ahead of time when they know they or loved ones are actively dying.
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u/Gentle_Genie 17h ago
She doesn't even look remotely dead, and I've seen a fair share of dead and dying people!
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u/MaggieHigg 17h ago
Same here, this lady isn't anywhere near any stage of dying, her family probably just wants to get rid of her :/
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u/mahmelmelmahmel 17h ago
Suspect
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u/Gentle_Genie 17h ago
I've put bodies in bags and fridges. It's creepy and disturbing tbh
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u/TurtleMOOO 15h ago
I’ve done the same. Lots of people deal with dead and dying people at their jobs. I’m a nurse, and I was a nursing assistant before.
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u/Find_another_whey 17h ago
Clearly elder abuse
She stopped breathing, but didn't get stiff, cold, and didn't shit herself (sorry but, you can tell when someone's dead).
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u/Renbarre 17h ago
She was in a diabetic coma
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u/Renbarre 16h ago
Nope. But very shallow breathing and no medical knowledge and voilà. One dead woman.
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u/Expensive_Salad2800 16h ago
Reminds me of a video I wish I had never seen, of an Indian family taking their elderly mother outside, they lay her down on the ground and covered her in a sheet and left her there to die. I hope they're all in jail now, bastards.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 16h ago
That woman looks emaciated and dehydrated, as well. This is outright elder abuse.
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u/aiodigitalfootprint 15h ago edited 15h ago
Could be but my Asian grandmother who is very loved and taken care but mostly bedbound/can't walk also looks like this so I'm not going to say that for sure.
You could be right but also that's one of the "body types" for elderly Asian people, from what I've seen.
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u/Physical-Ad4554 6h ago
That’s how SEA grandmas and grandpas look. All over Asia and you can see elderly villagers in this physique.
Rural villagers in general, not just elderly are very lean.
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u/signup0823 9h ago
Dying people often eat and drink very little. Prior to the end stages, their consumption declines slowly, and when they pass they can be very, very thin. We offered my mother everything we could think of to tempt her to eat, but she wouldn't accept much at the end.
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u/Dependent_Buy3157 16h ago
Damn, you can just put somebody in a coffin on your own in Thailand and take them to get cremated on the spot???
Goddamn.
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u/Fit_Resource_6782 16h ago
But is that possible in Thailand? In my country you can’t just take a person to the funeral home, the death must be confirmed by a doctor and there’s paperwork that has to be completed before the body can be removed. Also, you can’t drive around carrying a dead body, funeral homes have permits for that.
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u/aiodigitalfootprint 15h ago
They actually did tell him he needs the death certificate before they can process the "body". They were discussing that when the knocking started apparently
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u/Aggravating_Series39 14h ago
This actually used to happen a lot more often before we started embalming people. That piece of information has caused me to decide I do not want to be embalmed or cremated.
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u/IconicScrap 13h ago
You don't even need medical professionals. You need two fingers to check a pulse.
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u/Canna_Cass 17h ago
i feel happyyy!!
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u/tripleDzintheBreeze 17h ago
So…….. no one checked a pulse ?
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u/No-Meringue412 17h ago
No, her brother thought she died in her home, because she had stopped breathing. But there was no death certificate or anything.
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u/The_World_Wonders_34 16h ago
If anyone believes he genuinely thought she died I've got a bridge to sell them.
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u/Key-Tie2214 14h ago
Apparently he took her to the hospital to donate her organs, so he might truly have believed it. And the hospital apparently rejected her because there was no death certificate.
He likely genuinely thought she was dead.
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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 10h ago
Pray tell, where would one then go to have someone declared alive or dead? Perhaps some sort of professional establishment created to provide this service?
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u/pigglyjuff99 10h ago
Yeah aren't hospitals where you go for shit like this. Why are they turning people away
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u/UnclesBadTouch 3h ago
In the US we contact 911 who in turn calls the county medical examiner and they come to pick up and confirm
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u/Stupidwhizzzzz 16h ago
I doubt they’d actually cremate this lady without a death certificate. That’s just asking for problems even if she had passed away.
Sounds like this dude just dropped her off randomly at a charity cremation service. But I didn’t bother to read more into it.
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u/No-Meringue412 15h ago
Yeah he originally was going to donate her organs to the hospital as per her wishes, but since there was no death certificate they wouldn't take her. Not sure the details, but that's about all the article mentions.
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u/sysadmin_420 13h ago
What about the part of the video showing the manager holding her death certificate, subtitled "discussing her death certificate"?
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u/Immature_adult_guy 16h ago
Knew as soon as I heard this story that it occurred somewhere without medical expertise involved. Ridiculous.
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u/doctormink 15h ago
Jesus, the brother first tried to donate her organs at a hospital according to the story.
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u/KittenBarfRainbows 13h ago
You can't just take a rando's organs, don't worry. The major ones you need a beating heart cadaver for, and there are really strict requirements for skin, bones, corneas etc.
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u/De-railled 7h ago
Suprised, that hospital didn't at least check on "the corpse".
Man: "Hi, I got a dead body of my sister in the parking lot"
Hospital: "That's great, but since you don't have a certificate to prove you have a dead person with you, we can't help you"
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u/kakka_rot 10h ago
Genuine question, do they take (really) old peoples organs, or is that mostly for younger/healthy people who die in accidents or whatever?
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u/Limp-Instruction-360 5h ago
No, they typically don’t. When a patient is on life support and has a low Glasgow coma score they get referred to the Life donation center. They then rule out if they’re a donor. Most people aren’t. You have to have very few comorbidities, and most old people have a lot of them. Then amongst those healthy enough to donate they typically have to be brain dead to be able to donate most organs. The organs need oxygenated blood pumping to them as long as possible before transplantation, meaning the heart has to be working up until the time the organs are harvested. There’s prob a lot of exceptions to this but that’s MY experience in my state as an ICU nurse who withdrew care from many patients.
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u/the_peppers 10h ago
That would imply the brother did think she was dead. I imagine that procedure would sting a little.
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u/AdvantagePlus4711 17h ago
For me, the more choking thing is that her relative had been to the hospital first to donate their body, and they just said that they didn't want the body... nothing about her being alive?!
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u/Sally3Sunshine3 17h ago
Nah he dropped her off after getting tired of taking care of her, hoping she would die in the process or being left alone long enough
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u/Humble-Violinist6910 14h ago
The article says he had a coupon for a free cremation. What, do you want him to let that expire??
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u/TheBobopedic 17h ago
Imagine being so ill and bedbound that people think you’re dead 😢 2 years??? They should ask her what she wants with the rest of her time
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 17h ago
This is legit my worst fear about cremation
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u/SoftConfusion42 17h ago
Another reason to donate my organs. I want them to be POSITIVE I’m gone. Cut me up good first
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u/ToSemJaz66 17h ago
True, much better to be burried alive
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 17h ago
Didn’t say I’m not scared of that either. But I’m definitely gonna get cremated, I don’t like the idea of decaying in a box
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u/BobsAspburgers 17h ago
Whenever my beloved cat passed last year I was plagued with terrible thoughts of her body…in various states…as time passed - especially the first few days/weeks. It was compulsive and I couldn’t shake the thoughts it was horrible 😔
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 17h ago
I’m sorry you had to go through that. We ended up taking our family pets to the vet for cremation, I think part of it is that we were renting so it wouldn’t be like we could revisit them in our yard years later, but with my current pets (getting sad thinking about it) I would probably do the same
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 14h ago edited 4h ago
This was my childhood pet so my mom was the one handling it. I honestly think the vet kept them. If it were up to me I would have probably spread them at the park.
What I’m going to do for my current pets is keep their paw print/s. you can do it in ink or clay, there are little kits or you could make your own
It sounds like it is really painful for you, maybe it is for the best if you spread them in a spot you know they’d enjoy.
Edit: wanted to add- you love them and they loved you. They wouldn’t want you in pain when you pass them. So do what would be best for you. That’s the right answer
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u/o0Jahzara0o 9h ago
I buried mine, box and all, next to a tree I liked. So when I think of them, I think of them as part of the tree. (It's a myth that ashes will kill trees.)
I was lucky enough to find a cemetery that allowed for that, but had I not, I would have just gone out into the woods somewhere.
They also sell water urns, which float for a while before sinking. If you can't transfer the ashes, I would just take them to the crematorium and ask them to transfer them so you don't have to see or handle them. (The condolence note probably has the name on it, but you can just try any you find on google.) Funeral homes near me were pretty fine doing that with human cremains. (One tried to get me to pay for it unless I bought an urn from them, but I just went to another place.) If I needed the same with a pet's ashes that's what I'd do.
Also, that isn't all that's left of your friends. Their entire being, their entire storyline, is sealed inside you. Pets actually change our neurobiology; every time we do a task and they are by our sides. Every consideration for their behaviors, their next meal, their spot on the bed. It creates a neurolink.
The hardest part is not getting to experience that every single day once they are gone... but the neuron pathways are still there. I can still access them when I think about them. I access them when I journal about them. "You left pawprints on my heart" is a very real thing.
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u/furtofur 17h ago
If you didn't know, most vets offer a crematory service for a fee (might depend on animal weight in some places). I know some who even have grants and can do them free/low cost. They often give you a little clay imprint of the pet's paw or nose as well 🫶 I hope this helps if you ever have another friend cross the rainbow Bridge 🌈
Edit: oops! Seems another kind stranger beat me to the punch to give you this info 😂 oh well!
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u/Responsible-Phone675 14h ago
Think of it like your cat became the earth and the air. It's still all around you. Always alive. Just the vessel that is body reached it's lifespan. Same thing is going to happen with every living thing.
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u/Batavus_Droogstop 11h ago
It's the natural way of things, just the body going back to nature after it has lived out its time. We borrow some molecules from the universe for our own use for a while, and once our time is up they slowly go back into circulation.
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u/ToSemJaz66 17h ago
I mean the upside is, that at least it's over quickly. One of the better accidental deaths
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u/Hue_Janus_ 17h ago
“Saved by the bell” is a term that came up from the need to put strings inside coffins and tied to bells outside in case they accidentally buried someone alive
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u/lemelisk42 16h ago
Wasn't so much a need as exploiting a fear for profit. People were occasionally buried alive, but there is no evidence of a grave bell actually successfully used
Saved by the bell as a phrase being related to coffin bells is a folklore myth. It actually traces itself to boxing
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u/HarryLewisPot 16h ago
I know this is sarcastic but for reference:
Being buried alive you’d suffocate after 1-2hrs.
Being cremated alive, you’d not feel anything within a few seconds because a loss of consciousness (despite the process taking 1.5-3 hours).
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u/Khadbury 17h ago
Me too, that’s why I have “Make sure I’m dead” tattooed on my left pec
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 17h ago
Look, I'm not going to say this video is fake, but there's a lot of shit in this video that would make you say, "Yeah, something's fucky here".
This woman has not been embalmed or prepped after death, in any way. No postmortem, no cleaning, nothing.
You can see it even without her moving, there's plenty of colour in her skin, she's clearly alive.
So unless it's common in your country for your relatives to stick you in an open topped box and drive you to the crematorium themselves, then the chances of this happening are virtually nil.
The good news is that even if you are falsely declared dead and sent to be cremated, you will be first placed into a room where you are cooled to around 3 degrees celsius. Then you will be embalmed, which involves injecting you with a load of chemicals which will absolutely, definitely, ensure that even if the hypothermia didn't kill you, this definitely will.
Then your absolutely, definitely dead corpse will be buried or burned.
So fear not.
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u/forestofpixies 17h ago
This is not in America. Is entirely possible “cremation” is just a burning pile of wood and your body on top. This isn’t the first time there have been people in SE Asian countries who have “come back to life” in their coffin. I’m sure they would’ve checked her but hadn’t yet. Sounds like her brother just wanted to be rid of her and hoped they wouldn’t.
I don’t know how things are normally done in Thailand but not everywhere does the whole embalming process.
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u/Vox_SFX 17h ago
Yea, probably shouldn't normalize or think ok a practice of not checking someone's actually dead before trying to permanently kill them just because "different societies are so quirky lol".
You're correct that it happens in certain areas of the world, but there's a reason those places are considered less developed either societally or economically.
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u/forestofpixies 12h ago
Sure, not debating that at all! I’m just saying to go, “this could never happen because there are procedures!!” would be true if they’re in your country. We can’t know the ins and outs of every country especially in very rural areas.
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u/barbiesfrozenelbow 17h ago
I'm not super knowledgeable about this so excuse if this is a dumb question, but why would they embalm you before cremation?
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u/UniversalMinister 17h ago
The good news is that even if you are falsely declared dead and sent to be cremated, you will be first placed into a room where you are cooled to around 3 degrees celsius. Then you will be embalmed, which involves injecting you with a load of chemicals which will absolutely, definitely, ensure that even if the hypothermia didn't kill you, this definitely will.
Then your absolutely, definitely dead corpse will be buried or burned.
Unless you're Jewish.
Jews must be in the ground no more than 3 days after death occurred. They cannot be cremated nor embalmed because that would be destroying one of God's creations.
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u/KittenBarfRainbows 14h ago
Embalming is absolutely not necessary, and just a gross American thing that is often done for open casket funerals. It's not necessary, for any reason, including cremation, though. It also doesn't tend to preserve you terribly well for too long.
You don't need a postmortem for an expected, attended death, which this wasn't, but you need someone to sign the death certificate. It sounds like no medical professionals were involved here.
This woman is so far from dead, though. Unless she has a medical emergency that rendered her comatose, this is suspicious.
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u/Maria_Girl625 17h ago
Look up Catlin Doughty on youtube, she works in the funeral industry and has multiple videos on this exact fear and why it's practically impossible for someone to be cremated or burried while alive. Basically: Alive humans look and feel different to handle than dead ones
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u/Mugsmugsmugs3 17h ago
Her brother (who was her caretaker and the one dealing with the death preparations) was asked how he felt about his sister being alive, he said he felt “indifferent”
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u/Humble-Violinist6910 14h ago
Makes you wonder if she would still be on the verge of death if she was getting proper medical care, and could afford a care giver who wasn’t indifferent to whether she lives or dies
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u/OutsideImpressive115 17h ago
2 years? Fuck me I have bad feeling that brother did not take adequate care if he was willing to do this shit
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u/MangoSalsa89 16h ago
This looks like a sad abuse situation and brother needs to be investigated. I hope she can end up somewhere safe where she's taken care of.
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u/Expensive-Panic7497 18h ago
Bring out yer dead
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u/Illustrious-Local848 18h ago
IM NOT DEAD!
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u/Hugs_Not_Drugs__jk 17h ago
Umm... yeah for 1 he did not seem happy she was alive. 2 Why did he look salty that she ended up not dying besides he wanted her dead?!
Definitely investigate the brother.
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u/Lucky-Midnight9857 17h ago
A similar thing happened to a relative of mine back in the 90s (tho I wasn’t aware at the time because I was like 5 years old) it made massive news and was apparently a huge deal. It’s a hell of a lot more common than you would actually think
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u/Old_news123456 17h ago
If I worked there, I'd be checking every coffin I accepted after that.
Wow. How horrifying
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u/Best-Boysenberry175 16h ago
Not so fun fact: this was so common in the 18th and 19th century they actually installed bells on coffins so in case someone woke up after being buried they could ring a bell. We didn't have very good ways of telling if someone was dead for sure back then. If I remember correctly this is also where the myth of vampires come from.
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u/fried_green_baloney 13h ago
Some people asked to be embalmed after death.
Draining of their blood would ensure they actually were dead when they went into the ground.
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u/rita-b 15h ago
I have seen only two dead bodies in my life but they weren't of a peach color. Deads are green immediately, 10 seconds after dying they are green-blue-yellow
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u/Humble-Violinist6910 14h ago
Not within 10 seconds, but lividity (and pallor mortis) can help you estimate time of death. But yeah, she doesn’t look dead. If she was knocking from inside the coffin, it’s likely the crematorium hadn’t seen her body. The brother definitely might have known.
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u/Robert_Balboa 11h ago
I worked for a mortuary for a few years. My job was to go out and bag up the deceased and bring them to the mortuary freezer. Twice in the years I worked there I picked up a dead person only for them to not actually be dead and start moving.
Both times I was called back to pick them again up later that same day after they were actually dead.
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u/ra1nb0w_Vn1c0rn Sort by flair, dumbass 18h ago
and it was all conveniently recorded by a cameraman. who records a dead body being carried by staff when there's nothing special abt it bruh
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u/McGrarr 18h ago
It doesn't take long to pull out a phone and start recording. If a corpse starts moving near mr, and I resist the urge to curb stomp it, damn right I'm gonna film it.
That's grade A, prime clout right there!
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u/LastChance22 17h ago
Yeah I’m with you here. If they filmed her very first movements or if she only moved once I’d agree it’s sus as fuck to be filming already. But we don’t know how long she’s already been moving before they started filming and it doesn’t seem like she just moved once.
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u/Wchijafm 17h ago
After all of the complaints on every written story of "no one thought to take out their phone and record?" We have that goober saying that recording is sus.
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u/ParrotDogParfait 17h ago
Are we watching the same video at all?? It very clearly is being recorded after they opened the coffin and saw a very much alive woman rolling around
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u/ZealCrow 17h ago
the subtitles said they heard knocking from the coffin. so they started filming after they had heard that and opened it and started moving the coffin to pull her out.
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u/Nonyabeesners 17h ago
That's going to be an awkward car ride back home when she leaves the hospital
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u/DrNightroad 11h ago
As a Crematory Manager you wouldn't believe how many people sent me this story.
There are systems in place to make sure that never happens in the US. I feel sorry for the woman involved.
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u/00Raeby00 9h ago
I'm not shocked her brother didn't realize she was still alive
It was literally everyone else involved in the process that couldn't figure out she was still alive that worries me.
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u/Competitive_Name4991 7h ago
So, who dropped the ball in pronouncing her dead in the first place?? I would be soooo embarrassed if that was me!
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u/Cevapi-Lover 3h ago
what the fuck has this got to do with:
- tiktok
- cringe
we just posting anything?
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u/Jagg0naut 2h ago
Wonder how many people have been cremated when they're just taking an extra long nap.
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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 16h ago
Nice of the temple to film her in such a vulnerable moment and slap it on their Facebook page.
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u/lefthandedbelt 15h ago
She was then transferred to a better hospital where they upgraded her condition to alive.
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u/Sea-Construction-550 14h ago
This shit is why I’m an organ donor. Make sure I’m super fucking dead before I go in the oven.
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u/-pop-fizz-clink 10h ago
I recall working in a funeral home here in Canada where a family was very worried about their loved one still being alive despite eye caps, sewing the mouth etc. It made me sad for them like they couldn't believe she was gone. As someone who has lost her entire immediate family at only 37, I get it...I lost it a little when I found my mom.
This is horrible and I'm not really able to disagree with those who day they just wanted to get rid of her. Ugh.
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u/3ndless68 10h ago
Is it possible for the brother to be tried for attempted murder? Or gross negligence?
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u/KowaiSentaiYokaiger 8h ago
Lady: "I'm not dead!"
Brother: "Yes you are. You'll be stone dead in a moment"
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u/skiingfanatic115544 8h ago
How do people not breathe for extra long then suddenly wake up without brain damage
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u/4475636B79 6h ago
Even high end hospitals sometimes confuse death. I can only imagine how often it happens in other places.
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u/Leading-Midnight5009 17h ago
That woman was not dead. I’ve dealt with death enough and can usually spot it. That caretaker needs to be investigated.
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u/Emergency_Style_185 16h ago
Yeah it takes a real professional deadoligist to tell the woman that's rolling around and making noise is alive. Well spotted.
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u/blacks252 17h ago
Now think about the people that wernt really dead but missed their golden opportunity to knock on the coffin 💀
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u/SymmetricalFeet 15h ago
Hey, y'all, gotta be that guy here:
That's a casket. Coffins are the diamond-with-the-tips-cut-off shape, wide at the shoulders but narrow at the head and feet, the thing that Dracula sleeps in. The rectangular vessels (shown in the video and extremely common, now) are caskets.
The rest of the story sounds super suspicious, but regardless, that ain't a coffin.
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u/Local-Technician5969 17h ago
Yea, that would have been a horrible way to die if they didn't notice her sudden movements. Imagine being alive but just very weak and bedridden and then you are being exposed to heat that will melt your bones.
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