The Daily BuzzMourners flee in terror as Brazilian man turns up alive at his own wake
Ever wondered what people would say about you at your own funeral? Would your family and friends fondly remember all your special and wonderful qualities as they reminisced about your life?
One man came close to finding out recently, except that when Gilberto Araujo walked into the wake service organized for him, several attendees fainted before they could say anything. Others ran out of the house believing he was a ghost.
As Reuters details (via O Globo), family members of the car washer from Alagoinhas, Brazil had mistakenly identified the body of a murdered fellow car washer as that of their relative.
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The article notes that the 41-year-old hadn't seen his family in four months, though it doesn't explain why.
A friend notified Araujo about the wake after bumping into him in the street. He told O Globo that he called an acquaintance to let them know he hadn't yet fled this mortal coil, but the phone call recipient dismissed the call as a cruel joke.
He would have been better off calling his mother, shopkeeper Maria Menezes, who appears to be handling the situation better than most people whose offspring stroll into their own memorial service.
"It was a fright. ... I'm very happy because what mother has a son that they say is dead then turns up alive?" she said.
Well, the mother of Ademir Jorge Goncalves for starters.
CNN reports that the 59-year-old bricklayer ambled into his own funeral back in 2009 after family had wrongly identified him as the victim of a car accident.
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Goncalves had spent the night drinking instead.
The funeral also happened to coincide with the Brazilian Dia de Finados — a holiday commemorating the dead, and a great plot device for the next zombie flick.
