Wife sends ‘dead’ husband to morgue, where workers discover that he’s actually alive

Unfortunately, the man actually did pass away inside the funeral parlor before a medical team could arrive

Workers at a funeral parlor in central China got quite the surprise recently when one of the corpses that they were preparing for the grave started to show signs of life.

The apparently resurrected body was that of a man surnamed Huang from Shiyan in Hubei province. Huang had been suffering for several months from terminal stomach cancer and had eventually been released by the hospital to spend his final few days at home.

On Monday morning, Huang’s wife found that she was unable to wake her husband. Since he didn’t appear to be breathing, she called the funeral parlor to take his body away.

“My husband passed away at home early this morning. I am very scared. I ask you to come and take away his remains,” Huang’s wife is quoted as saying on the phone in a report from The Paper.

However, when Huang’s body arrived at the morgue, no one apparently bothered to double-check whether he was in fact dead or alive.

That discovery was left to one unfortunate worker who saw the man’s mouth move as he was applying makeup. Quickly, the worker shouted for his manager, who checked and found that Huang still had a pulse.

The manager called for a medical team, but, by the time that they arrived, Huang no longer had a pulse and was officially declared dead.

The funeral parlor’s director called Huang’s wife to tell her what had happened. After hearing that the family had spent almost all of their life savings on Huang’s treatment, he decided to waive all fees.

Turns out, the director has seen this kind of thing before, telling reporters that this is the third time that a family has brought in a “corpse” that was still alive.

[Images via The Paper]