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| rynner Location: Still above sea level Gender: Male |
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| Quote: | Two days after Prueitt woke up, he told his wife he had been in the presence of God, she said. By her account, Prueitt said God had rejected his death by suicide and sent him back to live out his days and die a natural death.
Steve Prueitt, of Beaverton, David's brother, opposes doctor-assisted suicide for religious reasons and said he thinks his brother was chosen by God as an example of why assisted suicide is wrong.
"God chose David as his spokesman with reference to physician-assisted suicide, absolutely," Steve Prueitt said. |
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"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out!" philosophy....  |
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Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 22-03-2005 21:16 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Sleeping senior ends up at B.C. morgue
Last Updated Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:25:17 EST
CBC News
VANCOUVER - A sleeping senior at a B.C. extended care facility was sent to a hospital morgue on Saturday, after being mistaken for her dead roommate.
According to Fraser Health Authority spokesperson Helen Carkner, the mix-up occurred when a driver who works for the company that transports the dead from the facility to the morgue didn't check the woman's wrist band for identification.
"He was shown by the nurse which room the [deceased] resident was in and the nurse pointed to the resident and gave the name," she told the Vancouver Sun. "She went back to the nursing station to complete the paperwork [and] for whatever reason, he picked the wrong individual."
The driver left the 87-year-old woman on a gurney in a hospital corridor. The mistake was discovered after a porter saw her move, and an employee at the extended care facility realized the mix-up and called the hospital.
The woman was taken back to the care facility in an ambulance and is doing fine, said Carkner.
She said the woman's family was understanding about what happened and satisfied that action was taken.
The driver, who was recently hired, was immediately fired. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-04-2005 18:42 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Woman Mistakenly Pronounced Dead Defends Fired Medic
Written by Dave Statter
Created:3/29/2005 7:35:26 PM
Last Updated:3/30/2005 4:18:43 PM
There's official confirmation now on the fate of a paramedic who mistakenly pronounced a woman dead.
An Alexandria City spokesperson tells 9 News as of Monday that medic is no longer a fire department employee.
But as Dave Statter reports, someone you might not expect is coming to the medic's defense.
Cegurna Thomas doesn't want money. She bears no hard feelings, despite being left for dead.
"I just thank god that I'm alive," says Thomas.
But that's not what one of the crew from Alexandria fire department medic unit 205 thought back on February 4th.
She left the 56-year old woman's body with police who then called the paramedics back when the officers noticed Cegurna Thomas moving and breathing.
Thomas, however, doesn't blame the medic.
But that's not what Alexandria officials think.
A city spokesperson confirms that as of Monday, the paramedic who declared Cegurna Thomas dead is no longer a city employee.
A union official said last week the other crew member received a 24 hour suspension.
A few years ago Thomas was rescued from her burning home by a neighbor, and had been revived twice after going into cardiac arrest in the hospital.
But with all her health problems Thomas, who is known in her neighborhood as the holy woman, says she's always happy to see another day.
Some Alexandria firefighters and medics are concerned that there have been no new procedures or retraining to prevent a similar mistake from being made.
Jane Malik, a spokesperson for the department, released ten pages of medical protocols and directives that have been in place for years.
Malik would only say that a quality assurance committee looked at the issue after the incident with Cegurna Thomas but made no changes. |
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| Mal_Adjusted Hardware Fault Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Total posts: 1759 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 07-04-2005 11:37 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 'Dead' wife turns up 11 years later
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Thursday April 7, 2005
The Guardian
China's justice system is being haunted by a "murdered" woman who has turned up alive and well 11 years after police tortured her husband into confessing to her supposed killing.
The sudden reappearance of Zhang Zaiyu - who ran off, rather than being dumped in a reservoir as detectives claimed - has embarrassed law enforcement authorities and strengthened calls for penal reform in a country that executes more prisoners than any other.
Zhang's husband, She Xianglin, was sentenced to death in 1974, soon after his wife went missing from their village in Hubei province. The evidence against him was the unidentified body of a woman found in a nearby lake, the accusations of Zhang's family and his own "confession".
According to the Xinhua news agency, the former security guard was deprived of sleep during 10 days of interrogation until he signed a document pleading guilty to murder. A higher court later commuted the death sentence to 15 years.
In his first interview after being released, the wronged man said he wanted compensation from the state and to avoid his former wife. |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1453611,00.html
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-05-2005 16:37 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Doctor punched by 'corpse'
Hospital officials in Romania are investigating after a doctor was punched by a 'corpse' in the morgue.
The doctor had to be treated for shock after he was punched by teenager Bogdan Georgescu.
It happened after the doctor thought he saw Mr Georgescu move and bent over to investigate.
The youngster, 16, had been taken to the morgue at Brasov County Hospital in Brasov, after collapsing and showing no signs of life.
He was declared dead on arrival and his body moved to the morgue.
He said: "I woke up and had no idea where I was, I looked to the left and to the right and saw a dead woman on either side of me, and then I saw this man coming towards me in a white coat.
"I just panicked. I thought he was going to kill me."
The youngster, from Fagaras, is now being treated in the neurological ward to find out the cause of his collapse.
He said: "The last thing I remember is drinking coffee with my brother, and then I woke up in the morgue."
The doctor was allowed to take time off work after being treated for shock. |
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1397102.html?menu=news.quirkies |
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| fluffle9 Great Old One Joined: 01 May 2004 Total posts: 979 Location: somewhere over the rainbow Age: 30 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 18-05-2005 02:44 Post subject: |
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| yeah, if i woke up in a room full of bodies i'd punch the first living person i saw too. |
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| oll_lewis mi mou tous kiklous taratte
sea below Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Total posts: 3071 Location: Woolfardisworthy Age: 33 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-08-2005 22:42 Post subject: "I thought you were dead" |
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| Quote: | Mourners meet man after his funeral
From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in London
August 30, 2005
MOURNERS who paid their last respects to a British war veteran were stunned to see him strolling through the town shortly after the funeral, newspapers said.
Friends of the former bus driver travelled from far and wide to attend the cremation after reading the death notice of a Frank Hughes in a local newspaper.
In a bizzare mix-up, the dead man being cremated had the same name and age and lived in the same northeast English town of Darlington as the mourners' beloved Frank.
Pals of the 80-year-old World War II veteran even mingled with relatives after paying their respects at the service.
No wonder they were astonished to see him wandering about the town later on.
Hughes said in The Sun newspaper: "One of them came flying across to me, saying, 'Frank, Frank, Frank, I can't believe it'.
"He said, 'I'm going to have to tell my wife straight away, she's been absolutely devastated.'
"Now I'm getting sick of people stopping me and telling me that I'm still alive."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16432704-13762,00.html
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| Posted: 31-08-2005 09:20 Post subject: |
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This is a little worrying. I have a pretty common name. In my life I have met 6 other people with the same name as me, 2 of which live locally.
I am not worried about people thinking I am dead but what if someone hires a hit man..... |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-11-2005 17:49 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Corpse opens eyes
November 3, 2005, 9:04:41
Bizarre News
Thats bizarre: An American woman was left horrified when she visited her dead brother's body - and he opened his eyes.
Deborah Golson had gone to pay her last respects to brother Louis Golson's corpse after he died in his sleep.
Emergency crews had declared the 51-year-old man dead after family members found him unresponsive in his bed.
However, when Deborah went into see her sibling's body he opened his eyes, scaring her out of her wits.
Louis' niece, Kimberly Golson, said: "They told me to call the doctor, to sign the death certificate and then said they would not have to take him to the morgue, because the funeral home could come and get him straight away.
Then he woke up."
It later emerged diabetic Louis had suffered a sugar attack which had put him into a diabetic coma. |
www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/105762004.htm |
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| TheQuixote Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Total posts: 4085 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 17-01-2006 17:57 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 'Dead man' walking panics village
An Indian man believed dead by his family and fellow villagers caused panic when he returned over fears he had come back as a ghost, the Times of India reports.
Children screamed "Ghost! Ghost!" and villagers locked their doors when Raju Raghuvanshi returned from jail earlier this month to his village in Mandla district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
Raghuvanshi's brothers, who had shaved their heads to mourn his death in line with Hindu tradition, fled when he appeared, the paper reports.
Villagers and family members have ostracised him, forcing Mr Raghuvanshi to file a complaint with local police.
The village council has demanded he prove he is not a ghost, but the paper did not say what kind of proof the elders wanted.
Mr Raghuvanshi's troubles arose after he was jailed last year.
In prison, he was admitted to hospital with a stomach ailment from which he recovered but a distant relative told his family he had died. |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 18-01-2006 03:32 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Ostracised 'ghost' seeks help to prove he is alive
(DPA)
17 January 2006
NEW DELHI — A man in Madhya Pradesh, who is believed to be a ghost by his family and villagers, has approached the police after a local committee asked him to produce evidence to prove he is not dead, a news report said yesterday.
The family of Raju Raghuvanshi believe he died after a distant relative told them that he succumbed to a stomach ailment at a hospital in another city. The family, which lives at Katra village, 510km northeast of Bhopal, had performed last rites and organised a community feast to ensure peace for his departed soul, the Times of India reported.
When Raghuvanshi reached Katra on January 1, villagers locked their doors when they saw him and his friends and brothers fled when he approached them.
Raghuvanshi contended that none of his family members visited him at the hospital and instead believed the word of the relative that he had died.
"I don’t know why they are doing this to me. The panchayat (village committee) wants proof that I am alive".
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| ted_bloody_maul Great Old One Joined: 23 May 2003 Total posts: 4877 Location: Quester's Psykick Dancehall Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 14-02-2006 12:42 Post subject: Whoops, wrong corpse |
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Whoops, wrong corpse
A Serbian funeral director is facing legal action after organising the burial of a man who was still alive. The mistake was noticed only as the coffin was being lowered into the ground, prompting angry scenes from relatives who had flown in from as far as America. The Topalovic family from Novi Sad in Serbia rang relatives to inform them of the death of the head of their family, Bogoljub Topalovic, 84, who they were told had passed away in hospital. But they realised a mistake had been made when Bogoljub rang his daughter on her mobile during the funeral service to ask why no-one had been to visit him for a few days. An investigation into the mix-up exposed a system where medical staff tipped off funeral staff about deaths. A nurse noted down the wrong name as she hurried to be the first to inform the funeral parlour and claim a cash bonus. Slobodan Curic, head of the haematology clinic in Novi Sad, said: 'We are extremely sorry for the mix-up and are taking the matter very seriously. 'It was not in the nurse's jurisdiction to inform the funeral company about the death of a patient, and we shall be taking disciplinary measures against her.'
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| rynner Location: Still above sea level Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-02-2007 14:26 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Heart attack baby back from dead
A baby boy who was pronounced dead after a heart attack came back to life 30 minutes later as he lay in his grieving parents' arms.
Medical staff at Leeds General Infirmary had tried in vain to resuscitate two-week-old Woody Lander.
He was handed over to parents Jon and Karen Lander so they could say goodbye.
After half an hour the couple heard the boy cough and doctors started his heart. Now 14 months old, Woody has been given a clean bill of health.
Mr Lander, 34, a civil servant from Farsley, Leeds, had been travelling with his 32-year-old wife to his parents' house in Norfolk in December 2005 when they noticed their child turn white and cold.
Woody was rushed to the emergency ward at Leeds General Infirmary where he had a heart attack. It was later discovered he had a blocked aorta.
Mr Lander said: "We were in bits. After what seemed like an eternity the doctor came out and said 'I think we have done all we can'.
"They reached the cut-off point for resuscitation and said 'that's it' and handed Woody to us to say goodbye.
"They started taking tubes out and that's when he started twitching.
"They managed to get his heart going and he came back to life in front of us."
Full recovery
Brain scans have now shown no lasting damage and the Landers have been told their son can expect to lead a full and active life.
Mr Lander said: "We still don't know how it happened. We just know he's a little miracle.
"The doctors said they had never heard of anyone coming round after 30 minutes of apparent lifelessness, let alone a young baby.
"But the people at the hospital were unbelievable and they made the miracle happen."
Mr Lander is hoping to thank Leeds General Hospital by running in the Leeds 10k Run for All, set up by fund-raiser and terminal cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson, later this year.
He is raising cash for the Children's Heart Surgery Fund at the hospital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6403389.stm
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| rynner Location: Still above sea level Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-03-2007 00:11 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | How do you diagnose death?
Two-week-old Woody Lander "came back to life" half an hour after being pronounced dead by medical staff. So how do you diagnose death?
His parents call him their "little miracle" and those in the medical profession say the case is "amazing".
Woody Lander - now a healthy 14 months old - was pronounced dead at Leeds General Infirmary after frantic attempts to save him by medical staff apparently failed. He had stopped breathing following a heart attack.
He was handed to his parents so they could say goodbye but when nurses started removing tubes from his body he began "twitching". Staff tried again to resuscitate him, this time successfully starting his heart 30 minutes after he was pronounced dead.
The case highlights how it is not always as straight forward as it may seem to tell if someone has died. So how do you know if someone is dead?
Diagnosing death is about excluding all possible signs of life, say Doctor Rodger Charlton. But as a body's organs and tissues do not die simultaneously there can be doubt about the actual moment of death.
In hospital someone is usually considered dead when there is no electrical activity from the heart or brain, he says. However, even these measurements are not completely reliable indicators of death.
Circumstances play a big part in each case, but hospitals have guidelines and procedures to follow in certain situations, says the Royal College of Physicians.
These include the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), a standardised points system based on eye movements, spoken responses and other physical movement.
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All three things are tested and considered separately, then added together. The lowest possible score on the scale is 3, but even that is not definitive as it can indicate a deep coma as well as death.
When attempts are made to resuscitate someone after a heart attack - as in Woody's case - there are specific steps that must be taken. Eight reversible causes have to be checked one at a time before someone is pronounced dead.
These include:
Hypoxia - lack of oxygen
Hyperkalemia - high potassium
Hypothermia - low body temperature
Checking all the possible causes can take time, anything up to 45 minutes in extreme cases. The cut-off point for resuscitation - when a person is pronounced dead - is when all eight have been checked and there are still no signs of life.
"Sometimes death is diagnosed quickly and in other cases it can take much longer, usually when the person is in hospital and there is more equipment to try and restart the heart," says nurse and resuscitation trainer, Alan Samuels.
"Normally the longer resuscitation goes on, the less chance there is of someone surviving, which is what makes the baby's case even more remarkable."
Patients who have hypothermia or are drugged can seem dead. It can be difficult to feel a pulse if the heartbeat is very slow.
Phobia
Size is also a factor, as it is sometimes harder to hear a heart beat of a heavier person as there is more fat and muscle between the medical apparatus and the heart.
"A lot of people have a phobia of being wrongly diagnosed as dead," says Mr Samuels.
"I think that stems from centuries ago when medicine was less sophisticated and most people did not die in hospital. In this day and age it is very rare to misdiagnose death.
"Death usually takes place in a hospital setting, where sophisticated equipment is used to revive the person and test for vital signs. In a hospital it is generally very obvious when someone has died."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6404593.stm
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17897 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 02-03-2007 09:40 Post subject: |
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I can recommend Sherwin B. Nuland's 'How We Die' for anyone who wants to know, well, why we die. 
(What kills us, no matter what the named cause of death, is the failure of the oxygen supply to the brain. When the brain dies, we're dead.)
Nuland goes into questions of rescusitation, actual time of death, diagnosis of death and so on, and mentions that the only way to be sure of a person's death is when they start to decompose, which sign would have been evident in earlier times when most deaths occurred at home.
So I'm not surprised when, now and then, someone who appears dead is still alive. Life is more than a chemical process - it is a mystery.
Little Woody's survival is fantastic, a wonderful miracle for his family. I am thrilled for them. |
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