Woman discovered alive inside mortuary refrigerator

www.nydailynews.com ^ | Jul 02, 2018 | 9:50 AM | By Ariel Scotti

[Heart of Georgia]

Seems like that scenario was on something I watched .. maybe on Rockford or one of those shows.

And actually, a release handle might also be useful here .. just in case no one hears the buzzer and the unthinkable takes place.

[Rastus]

She was incredible back then. Shame the left had to totally **** up the X-Files this year.

[Ancesthntr]

“Chilling! It might be a good idea to install a buzzer just in case a ‘corpse’ wakes up.”

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That’s been done already. During the Middle Ages a lot of people were dirt poor, so much so that they couldn’t afford their own casket. So, many times, a newly dead person would be buried in the casket of someone else who had recently died. Sometimes, upon opening the casket to put in the new body, people found scratch marks on the inside of the lid...yeah, they buried people who were still alive. I cannot imagine the horror of being in that position. Anyway, to avoid that happening again, people would drill a hole in the casket and run a rope from inside the casket to a bell, which a wakened “dead” person could pull to ring the bell, to alert the watchman to come and dig them up.

Hence the phrase, “Saved by the bell.”

[GnuThere]

I’ve read about some kidnapping victims using it.

[Ancesthntr]

Oh, by the way, that’s why a wake is also now held - it started in the Middle Ages, when people would stick around for a while to see if a “dead” person would awaken.

Infinitely preferable to ringing the bell, IMHO.

[Beowulf9]

She was.

What great looks she could come up with for the unbelievable stuff she suddenly faced. Lol.

[Innovative]

Good thing she survived not just the accident, but also being in the morgue.

[bgill]

Equipment used to determine life showed no form of life on the woman."

Did you think to turn on the equipment?

[Heart of Georgia]

“I cannot imagine the horror of being in that position”

That is horrifying to think about.

And they knew the possibility or else why install the bell system?

I think I would have requested being ‘buried’ in a cave or a structure of some sort — and I’d ask that I be checked on for at least a couple of days - then they could plant me in the ground.

[ro_dreaming]

There’s always the “Night Shift” (Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton).

[outofsalt]

Please Don’t Bury Me
John Prine

Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen
And died
And oh, what a feeling!
When my soul
Went through the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride

When I got there they did say,
“John, it happened this way,
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head”
And all the angels say,
“Just before you passed away
That these were the very last words
That you said”

“Please don’t bury me
Down in that cold, cold ground
No, I’d rather have ‘em cut me up
And pass me all around”
“Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don’t mind the size”

“Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just to get ‘em out of here”
“Venus De Milo can have my arms
Look out! I’ve got your nose
Sell my heart to the junk man
And give my love to Rose”

“But please don’t bury me
Down in that cold, cold ground
I’d rather have ‘em cut me up
And pass me all around”
“Throw my brain in a hurricane
The blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don’t mind the size, oh man!”

“Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
And give my knees to the needy
Don’t pull that stuff on me”
“Hand me down my walking cane
It’s a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye”

“But, please don’t bury me
Down in that cold, cold ground
I’d rather have ‘em cut me up
And pass me all around”
“Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don’t mind the size, that’s right”

~JOHN PRINE

[Bellflower]

Can you share any of them?

[Oatka]

My dad worked his way through collage as an orderly. His stories of some of the things that happened in the morgue are hair raising.

A guy in our club was the son of a mortician and occasionally helped dad out. We asked him if he ever any hairy experiences, like someone sitting bolt upright after being on the slab.

He said said no, but one time he was working on a corpse and dropped a tool of the floor. He bent down to pick it up and the dead guy's arm dropped on his shoulder.

He said they never could get the stain out of the concrete floor.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There was the time when he was prepping a body in autopsy. The corpse was a little too far down on the slab so he grabbed it under the arms to pull it up a little.

And the dead man moaned.

The poor guy had died on the inhale and the pressure under the arms forced out the air past the vocal cords.

An interesting thing during the day with the doctor around to explain. Bone chilling when you are alone with a dead body after midnight.

Then there was the time one of the dead guys slapped him. Guess he did not like being autopsied.

For funny there was the time that his buddy swiped a skeletal arm from the morgue (it was a teaching prop) he had fastened it into his sleeve and they were entertaining the patients with jokes.

One of the Nuns in and saw what was going on and asked "What is THIS?"

Quick as a flash the guy replied, "Oh help me sister! I got my arm caught in the sterilizer!"

She grabbed up a magazine and started hitting him with it and chased him out of the room.