USA Africa Dialogue Series - Recurrent Technical Death Sentence

This may not be the appropriate forum to discuss this issue but I crave the indulgence of the medical experts and apologize to non-medicals. There is an emerging trend of people being pronounced dead waking up again. The latest is that of South-African man that wakes up in the mortuary, prelude to that was of a woman that woke up at her funeral only to truly die "back" after 15minutes due to shocks in Russia few weeks ago. The husband threatens legal action, but of course it wouldn't bring the woman back. A friend nearly lost his wife early this year to same fate. The woman woke up in transit to the mortuary. I felt bad hearing that, because another friend lost his wife to childbirth complications at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, last year. What I don't understand is that the said woman died at daybreak and we buried her around 6:00pm, yet the body was so fresh, bending in the hands of those carrying her. It was a day I will never forget as it haunts me as if we buried her alive, and ever since I don't visit grave sites again. I discussed the incidence with an elderly mortuary attendant. His response is that there are many of such in his diary. He furthered that, few hours after some are brought in into the mortuary, he hears sounds as if someone is banging something, only to discover that the position of such people would have changed as if trying to stand up. He said the cabinet mortuary is the worse, as you see some of them with hands up their chest, as if trying to push off the covering. I then said why can't you just help those people, and bemused he said "that is ultra-vires". The point then is, since our technologies have their failings, "CAN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION PROFER AN ARRANGEMENT WHEREBY PEOPLE ARE KEPT IN-TRANSIT FOR MAYBE 12HRS BEFORE THE FINAL MORTUARY DESTINATION?" Nothing compares to the pain of losing a close person.

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