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'Dead' woman found alive in South Africa morgue fridge

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Dalek

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44681264

A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge.

The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident.

Ambulance company Distress Alert said she had shown "no form of life", South Africa's TimesLive website reports.

But when a morgue worker returned to check on the body in the fridge, he found the woman was breathing.

An official has confirmed to the BBC the woman is now being treated in a hospital east of Johannesburg after being referred by forensics officers. She has not been named.
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An investigation into the incident is being carried out, with the family demanding answers.

"As a family we won't talk about this unless the police, paramedics and the mortuary officials who were involved are present. We need answers," a family member told the BBC, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The man said the family was in shock.
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Coyote Starrk

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HeySeuss said:
It's ok she just needed to chill
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Z-Beat

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Joking aside, waking up in a morgue would be a nightmare.
 
Booki

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I'm tryna figure out how this mixup can happen. One instance is strange enough, but this is the second time this year this has happened in South Africa.
 
captive

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like a mercyful fate song come to life.

How does this happen in 2018, with all the technology we have, its not *that* hard to detect a pulse, even with your bare fingers.
 
Eldy

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The article only says that she was found breathing so I hope that means she didn't wake up until after she'd been taken out of the morgue. Freaky shit either way, though. Hope she makes a full recovery.

captive said:
like a mercyful fate song come to life.

How does this happen in 2018, with all the technology we have, its not *that* hard to detect a pulse, even with your bare fingers.
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Poor training, inattentiveness, and/or plain ol' human error, I would think.
 
hordak

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yeah if i woke up in a tiny dark fridge, i would be screaming for hours. hopefully i don't bleed to death, since i was JUST IN A CAR ACCIDENT.
 
Sectorseven

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Do paramedics normally declare people dead and that's it? I mean, wouldn't a coroner examine them before putting them in a freezer?
 
Darryl M R

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There's a good amount of overreaction over jokes about a woman being found ALIVE

Cool your head top.


 
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Rayne

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She was found alive. I'm not sure what's with the no fun allowed police. No one's making fun of a dead woman.
 
Drksage

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People getting pissed someone made a joke of a living person that was not dead as presumed
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