Grandmother, 70, 'comes back to life' moments before cremation
A grandmother “came back to life” moments before she was about to be cremated in Thailand.
Phinij Sopajorn, 70, had been suffering from a severe goitre when she stopped breathing at the hospital on the evening of October 20.
The doctor let the family take the body for a Buddhist funeral and they kept her in a cold coffin at the local temple for three days.
The casket was unloaded from the hearse on October 23 and taken to the area where the ceremony was taking place.
However, just before the body was about to be loaded into the incinerator, her husband Thawin Sopajorn, 73, began the traditional funeral custom of washing her face with a damp flannel and noticed that his wife was gently breathing.
“I bathed her and her body still moved,” he said
Mr Sopajorn then noticed that her eyes were flickering and he immediately called for help.
Paramedics arrived and performed CPR before declaring that Mrs Sopajorn was still alive.
Delighted Mr Sopajorn said that he suspected his wife was still alive because her body had not stiffened.
“After she stopped breathing on Sunday we put her into the coffin and I thought it was strange that her body was not stiff,” he said
Mr Sopajorn said that after hugging his wife, he called his children with the good news but they thought he had “a hallucination”.
"However, they had to believe me as my daughter-in-law who is a doctor checked and confirmed that she was alive, but her pulse was very weak," he said.
The family took her body home where they laid it out next to a warm fan and put hot water bottles on her chest.
Mrs Sopajorn is not responsive or able to talk but her family will continue to nurse her at home, though she is not expected to pull through.
“I am very thankful that I noticed my wife was still alive. We will continually take care of her until she passes away,” Mr Sopajorn said.
—with AOL and Newsflare
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