"I'm not dead yet!"
Posted on 01/20/2008 11:04:55 PM PST by americanophile
SANTIAGO (AFP) - An 81-year old man in the small Chilean village of Angol shocked his grieving relatives by waking up in his coffin at his own wake, local media said on Sunday.
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When Feliberto Carrasco's family members discovered his body limp and cold, they were convinced that the octogenarian's hour had come, so they immediately called a funeral home, not a doctor.
Carrasco was dressed in his finest suit for the wake, and his relatives gathered to bid him a final farewell.
"I couldn't believe it. I thought I must be mistaken, and I shut my eyes," Carrasco's nephew Pedro told the daily Ultimas Noticias.
"When I opened them again, my uncle was looking at me. I started to cry and ran to get something to open up the coffin to get him out."
The man who "rose from the dead" said he was not in any pain, and only asked for a glass of water.
Local radio also surprised listeners by announcing a correction to Carrasco's death announcement, saying the news had been premature.
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Wonder how many people have been buried alive like this.
“The rumors of my death have been greatly exagerated.”
Mark Twain
It’s amazing, but he now walks around with a body filled with embalming fluid!
Hope for Fred!
I hate when that happens.
I always thought Fred was delaying from the beginning due to severe constipation.
“For crying out loud, I was hibernating! Don’t you guys ever take a pulse?!”
My favorite “Far Side”
The only real conservative candidate is former Senator Fred Thompson but his low vote totals in all the Republican primaries thus far make him a one-man endangered species.
I thought this thread was about Fred?
Like Ted Kennedy?
‘”When I opened them again, my uncle was looking at me. I started to cry and ran to get something to open up the coffin to get him out.”’
Was the nephew wearing those magic x-ray glasses?
"I'm not dead yet!"
I noticed that too...probably just the bottom half.
Just look at the scatch marks on the inside of the coffin lid.
Guess that's why they call it a wake.
It’s going to be hard for him to trust his relatives from now on.
My first thought was Nancy Pelosi
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