Dean Man Walking...A bit of humor and hope

January 29, 2008

Read this today and got a bit of a chuckle. Maybe he was just in a temporary

hypo coma, lol.

''Dead'' Man Sits Up in Coffin at His Wake

This is the stuff of bad horror movies--but in this case, it's real. An

81-year-old man from Angol, a small village in Chile, shocked grieving

relatives when he woke up in his coffin at his own wake.

Agence France Presse reports that Feliberto Carrasco was found limp and cold

by his family, who assumed he was dead. After all, he was 81 years old.

Instead of calling a doctor, they called the funeral home. They dressed

Carrasco in his finest suit, placed him in his coffin and held a wake to bid

him farewell.

There was just one problem. Carrasco may have been limp and cold, but he

wasn't dead, " 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. " Carrasco told

the shocked crowd he was not in pain and asked for a glass of water.

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