Posted on 04/03/2011 6:20:29 AM PDT by NYer
MEXICO CITY -- A newborn girl declared dead by doctors in Mexico surprised mourners when she came back to life inside her coffin.
Hidalgo state Attorney General Jose Rodriguez says the parents heard a strange noise coming from the casket during the baby's wake.
When they opened the coffin, they found the infant crying and very much alive.
The baby was born prematurely on Monday and was pronounced dead by a doctor at a hospital in the town of Tulancingo. The doctor is now being investigated for possible negligence, Rodriguez said.
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Didn’t you read somewhere that the “Wake” originated in Ireland because sometimes people would awake during their funeral?
You can say that again!
Never in the history of Free Republic have so many said so little with so many words.
Best Thread Title of the Day Award !
You can say that again!
The end is near . . . another sign given to the people of the coming Armageddon.
Did you die with your finger on the enter key?
Leni
I think I’ve read it a time or two. Or three. Or four...
Congrats, you are now the record holder for multiple comments on an FR thread.
“Obviously, they don’t embalm in Mexico.”
They don’t in the US either for newborns, their veins are too small for the embalming equipment. Which in this case was a good thing.
Audi alteram partem.
Off topic, but try the poem Jabberwocky to the tune of Greensleeves. Fits perfectly, and somewhwere Lewis Carroll may be saying "somebody finally got it!"
I found the Jabberwocky poem and jumped right in, warbling the words to the "Greensleeves" melody in my most ardent and uffish way. The words fit perfectly!
Now the lyrics and music are gyreing and gimbeling around my fulgey head, whiffling out my beamish lips, burbling as the lovely notes outgrabe around and behind the looking glass.
Thank you, thank you....we now are the only ones privy to Lewis Carroll's mimsy secret. This means you and I will be snicker-snacked together till the end of thyme.
How frabjous!
Leni
In your wabe? In your wabe? In your wabe? In your wabe? In your wabe? is that enough times for this thread?
My great-great grandfather "woke" during his wake.
No kidding. Can you imagine?
Nope. I did 9 once. When I came back and saw it, my face was RED!
Was he Irish?
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