Miss. man wakes up in body bag at funeral home

WFLA ^ | 02-28-2014 | AP

[PaulCruz2016]

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

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

The coroner was called to Williams' home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.

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

[JRandomFreeper]

long after Poe's 1849 death.

Assuming he wasn't buried alive and lived that long in the box. :)

/johnny

[grania]

Good thing he wasn’t an organ transplant donor.

[Scoutmaster]

Good point.

[Darksheare]

Read somewhere that Poe suffered from catalepsy.

[Scoutmaster]

The circle of life is complete.

Reading about catalepsy, I find Robert E. Lee's mother, Anne Carter Lee, suffered from catalepsy and as a result became a victim of . . .

vivisepulture.

[Scoutmaster]

The circle of life is complete.

Reading about catalepsy, I find Robert E. Lee's mother, Anne Carter Lee, suffered from catalepsy and as a result became a victim of . . .

vivisepulture.

[Tax-chick]

OH, that’s dreadful!

[Darksheare]

Yikes!!

[bigheadfred]

An ex? I've got plenty, I'll share. so taking on useless crap means i have to try to sign on to obamacare twice

again

and again

and again

[Peet]

This is why the traditional “wake” was once held. My grandfather’s body was placed on the kitchen table and a multi-day party commenced.

Sittin' Up With The Dead - Ray Stevens - YouTube

[procrustes]

“It’s not weasels in the bag”!

[real saxophonist]

One reads of a body sitting up straight, either in a casket or on a table. In three years of Funeral Service, I never saw or heard of that happening.

One thing I did see was some fingers moving, due to cold embalming fluid being injected into a still warm body. Creepy.

And I've heard the 'Death Rattle' a couple of times.

[Darksheare]

Seeing the body twitch in the casket at a funeral.

[fanfan]

I deny ever waking up in a body bag.

Note to FReepers: Darks can only wake up when he's ‘out’ of the body bag.

[Darksheare]

Great, you’re trying to get me stuck.
Arn’cha?

LOL

[fanfan]

They should have zippers that can be operated from both outside and inside a body bag, don’t ya think?

[Darksheare]

They should.
But that does take the fun out of sitting up bag and all then saying, “Hey buddy, got a light?”

[fanfan]

True. If they don’t see the light, they are stuck in there.

[Darksheare]

“Heeeeelp meeeeee.” *said in a bare whisper from inside the bag.