True Story.!! Honestly

mravaya

Reported in the Huffingdon Post

As far as wild nights go, this man's tale can probably top them all.

A man in Russia’s Far East has woken up in a morgue after having been declared dead.

Before the incident he had been drinking vodka rounds with friends and passed out.

An ambulance was then called and medical staff declared the man dead before taking him to the morgue, according to local news sources.

He was placed in a mortuary freezer - but ended up regaining consciousness.

“That night the local morgue was filled to its capacity, the bodies were not only on the shelves, but also on the floor of the freezer room, where our ‘dead’ hero was allocated,” Aleksey Stoyev, a police spokesman, told a local newspaper.

“At some point, the man woke up, failing to understand where he was. It was very dark and cold. In addition his brain was foggy due to the influence of alcohol. In the darkness, he felt someone’s completely cold limbs and in fear rushed to the door. But it was locked.”

According to the reports, the man started screaming for help, drawing the attention of the morgue’s guard, who reported the situation to the doctors.

Opening the door police were met by the ‘resurrected’ man who in panic ran out of the room. He was later questioned by police and released.

Returning to the place of the party, he found his friends were still drinking, but this time commemorating him.

Quazzie

If this was 2000 years ago we'd be writing books about which would eventually lead to the deaths of millions of people.

Vic_08

It's not that unusual for people to be declared dead when they're not. Hypothermia in particular can mask life signs.

Competent Hospitals will generally keep working on apparently dead patients with very low body temperatures until they are at normal temperatures and still unresponsive.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Haha I love that his friends just kept drinking

DivingDuck

Freezer rooms should be designed that they can always be opened from the inside.

Poor chap-- but as has already been pointed out, this sort of thing happens more often than you might imagine.

the evasion_kid

not surprising...the russians are doing theyre best to drink themselves into extinction

GFT

mortuary Doctor: "Hey, you said you was dead!"

Russian: "Yes, dead tired but I'm quite refreshed now".

starry_eyed

DivingDuck wrote: »

Freezer rooms should be designed that they can always be opened from the inside.

Poor chap-- but as has already been pointed out, this sort of thing happens more often than you might imagine.

In a morgue? Surrrrreee.

DivingDuck

starry_eyed wrote: »

In a morgue? Surrrrreee.

Yes, especially in a morgue.

Medical staff are human, and as such, make mistakes.

If you happened to be incorrectly pronounced by an incompetent doctor/mortician, or a competent one who simply happened to be having an off moment, wouldn't you like to think you wouldn't have to bang and scream until somebody noticed you weren't actually dead? As has been written before, this is not a one-off incident.

What harm could come from allowing the doors to be opened from the inside? It would also prevent accidents/pranks with staff, too.

Menas

Good job he was not in one of those countries that bury their dead hours after the declaration of death.

Must of been nice to go back and your friends drinking in your honour. Bless.

cerastes

DivingDuck wrote: »

Freezer rooms should be designed that they can always be opened from the inside.

Poor chap-- but as has already been pointed out, this sort of thing happens more often than you might imagine.

DivingDuck wrote: »

Yes, especially in a morgue.

Medical staff are human, and as such, make mistakes.

If you happened to be incorrectly pronounced by an incompetent doctor/mortician, or a competent one who simply happened to be having an off moment, wouldn't you like to think you wouldn't have to bang and scream until somebody noticed you weren't actually dead? As has been written before, this is not a one-off incident.

What harm could come from allowing the doors to be opened from the inside? It would also prevent accidents/pranks with staff, too.

What harm? Seems like a weak point in our defence against a zombpocalpse

DivingDuck

cerastes wrote: »

What harm? Seems like a weak point in our defence against a zombpocalpse

Zombies are the least scary of all horror-movie fiends.

Personally, I'm far more concerned about body snatchers.

cerastes

DivingDuck wrote: »

Zombies are the least scary of all horror-movie fiends.

Personally, I'm far more concerned about body snatchers.

The slow moving ones maybe, but even the body snatcher's human hosts will need to be locked away, no good if they can simply walk out of the morgue and convince us they were simply drunk.
Taking off the head,filling the mouth with salt, sowing the lips shut and then burying at a crossroads at least provides some certainty, probably the only way to be sure is to nuke the entire site from orbit. I think locking the morgues is a better long-term solution though.