'Dead' Man Comes Back to Life at Funeral Home
(死者が葬儀屋で生命回復)
Mon January 5, 2004 08:00 AM ET

SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - A New Mexico funeral home owner received the surprise of his career when a man pronounced dead at a hospital came back to life just before he was to be embalmed.

Russell Muffley, the owner of Muffley Funeral Home in Clovis, New Mexico, said he noticed Felipe Padilla breathing when the man pronounced dead at a hospital was being transferred to his facility on Wednesday. Padilla, 94, was rushed back to the same hospital, but did not recover. He was declared dead for a second time.

"When we were getting ready to move him from the stretcher to the embalming table, we noticed signs of life," Muffley said.

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おいおい頼むよ。
死亡確認くらいちゃんとやってくれ。

アメリカは土葬だ。焼かない。なんかの拍子に死亡確認が誤ったまま埋められたら、文字通り生き埋めになってしまう。

日本の墓石はものものしくて、夜に一人で墓地を通るとすこし涼しさを感じるが、アメリカはぺらっとした墓石が一個あるだけで、墓地はなんとなく間延びして見える。
だけどよく考えると、ちゃんと骨になってる日本の墓地と違って、アメリカののんきそうな墓地の足の下には、ナマで埋められた死者さま方がお休み中なんだよなぁ。
こっちのほうが怖ぇじゃねえか。