Overview
- The 65-year-old from Phitsanulok had been bedridden for about two years, and her brother believed she had stopped breathing roughly two days earlier.
- He transported her about 500 kilometers (300 miles) to a Bangkok hospital to fulfill her wish to donate organs, but the hospital refused without an official death certificate.
- Wat Rat Prakhong Tham in Nonthaburi also would not proceed without the document, and staff heard tapping from the coffin while explaining how to obtain it.
- Temple video shows the woman moving her arms and head before personnel arranged her transfer to a nearby hospital for evaluation.
- The abbot said the temple will pay her medical bills, and reporting has cited similar mistaken-death cases abroad that highlight risks when deaths aren’t medically certified.