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Woman declared dead wakes up screaming in morgue

Woman declared dead wakes up screaming in morgue

Here’s another ‘biggest fear’ you may not have known you had.

A 92-year-old woman who was declared dead by a doctor in Germany suddenly awoke screaming inside of a freezing mortuary, reports the Associated Press.

The doctor has since been charged with negligent body harm for the fairly large oopsy-daisy and if convicted, the doctor could face anything between a fine and a prison sentence.

After the 92-year-old was found without a pulse and not breathing, the doctor, whose name has not been released, declared the woman to be dead.

But when she was taken to a funeral home that evening, a worker heard screams coming from the refrigeration room, where the woman was discovered alive.

Two days later the woman died from heart disease, unrelated to the mishap.

And as if this story isn’t already the stuff of nightmares, it’s not necessarily the first time something like this has happened.

Last year it was a 91-year-old woman from Poland who had to suffer 11 hours in cold storage. It wasn’t until they saw her moving in her body bag that they realized she wasn’t dead.

And back in the 18th and 19th century, ‘safety coffins’ were often used to prevent “premature burial.”

Quite honestly, we don’t know what’s scarier: waking up in a morgue or working the shift where someone wakes up in a morgue.