Woman Declared Dead Wakes Up During Funeral, Dies Days Later
- A 76-year-old Ecuadoran woman who had been pronounced dead revived during her wake and knocked on her coffin, startling her relatives.
- She was rushed to the hospital but died a week later from complications related to a stroke.
- The woman's family has demanded an investigation into how she was wrongly declared dead initially.
- A medical review board has been formed to determine how the mistake in issuing the death certificate occurred.
- Similar cases of people being wrongly pronounced dead have happened recently in the U.S. as well.