‘Dead’ baby wakes up for his funeral wake

[rassmatic]

Now that's creepy.

A baby boy born 16 weeks prematurely was declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Paraguay only to wake up in time for his funeral wake hours later.

Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the state-run hospital in the capital of Asuncion, said the baby weighed just 500 grams when he was born.

"Initially, the baby didn't move, he practically didn't have any respiratory reflexes, nor did we hear a heartbeat and, as a result, we declared a premature fetus of 24 weeks dead," Weber told Reuters Television.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32355096/ns/world_news-americas/

[Archer]

Very weird indeed,  and kinda ironic how he woke up for his funeral wake 

[Nephilim]

i see what you did there

[Q]

Actually, that's the purpose of a wake.

At a time when lots of ppl were accidentally buried alive, they use to tie a string to the hand of the corpse and attach it to a bell on the surface. They had celebrations by the gravesite so that they'd be around to hear the bell if it happened to ring, in which case, the buried person wouldn't have been dead, just asleep.

Once they heard the bell, it would mean that the "corpse" was then awake. De lil yute was just early, that's all. No time for the bell, lol.

[rassmatic]