Overview
- Staff at Wat Rat Prakhong Tham heard knocking during final preparations, opened the coffin and found the 65-year-old moving and conscious as the scene was being livestreamed.
- The abbot ordered an immediate transfer to a nearby hospital, where physicians reported critically low blood sugar and no signs of heart or respiratory failure.
- Temple representatives said they would arrange care and pay the patient's medical costs.
- Her brother had driven her in a coffin from Phitsanulok after local authorities notified the family of her death, seeking to honor her stated wish to donate organs in Bangkok.
- Accounts conflict over paperwork, with some reports saying a hospital declined to accept the body without a death certificate while others state all documents for cremation had been issued.