Janina Kolkiewicz, a 91-year-old woman has woken up in a body bag after being declared dead and kept in a morgue's cold storage room for 11 hours.
She was declared dead after an examination by the family doctor in the eastern Polish town of Ostrow Lubelski, and sent to a mortuary while her family planned her funeral.
But when the funeral home's staff opened the refrigerator to check on her body, they were shocked to find it moving inside the body bag.
They zipped it open to find Ms Kolkiewicz awake, complaining of feeling cold.
She has now returned to her family where she ate two pancakes and a bowl of hot soup to warm up, reported Polish newspaper Dziennik Wschodni.
Her ordeal began when her niece, Bogumila Kolkiewicz, called the family doctor, Dr Wieslawa Czyz, after noticing she was not breathing.
Upon finding no pulse, Dr Czyz declared her dead and wrote out her death certificate.
Her niece even began planning her funeral, which was set for two days later.
'I was sure she was dead,' Dr Czyz said. 'I'm stunned, I don't understand what happened.'
'Her heart had stopped beating,' he added. 'She was no longer breathing.'
Ms Kolkiewicz said she was feeling 'normal' and 'fine', though her niece said she had no idea quite how close to death she came.
Source - DailyMail
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