I laughed at this, but it isn't really funny. I'll bet the undertaker was scared spitless. It happens more than people know, mostly with infants and very young children.

Man wakes up in body bag at funeral home


LEXINGTON, Miss. - Workers at a U.S. funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams' home in Mississippi, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday.

Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.

Family members were called and Williams was taken to a hospital. Howard says he believes Williams' pacemaker stopped working, then started again.

Family members say Williams, a farmer, told them he's happy to be alive.

http://news.ca.msn.com/world/man-wakes- ... neral-home

I can see a lawsuit against the coroner coming up...

The coroner didn't do anything wrong. It was the hospital that pronounced him dead.

Did you miss these two sentences in the op, SciFi?


Mr. Williams wasn't taken to a hospital until after he woke up at the funeral home.

Sooz

I'm actually surprised there wasn't an autopsy ordered. Home deaths, unless there was recent grave illness with a terminal diagnosis, an autopsy is usually routine.