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

[Guest guest]

So we should start Adopt a Zombie as a fundraiser? with yep, you

guessed it... a Zombie as our mascot? They need love,(and money)too!

is that it? or start the 'My doctor said I was a zombie so I need to

stay home from work/school " ? Boy, I could have used that one this

past year! Maybe we could get insurance companies to add code

244.9z.... sorrrrry...

Why would he have to get something to open the coffin if he could see

his uncle looking at him? hmmmmm.. truth is stranger than

fiction...

I needed a laugh, Thanks!

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

temporary

> hypo coma, lol.

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

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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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> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/21/1200764121109.html

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