Woman who Knocked From Inside Her Coffin at her Own Funeral Dies after Week in Hospital

[Meatpie]

An Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.

Bella Montoya, 76, was first declared dead by a doctor at a hospital in the city of Babahoyo last week.

But when mourners attending her wake heard her knocking on her coffin, she was immediately rushed back to the same hospital for treatment.

After seven days in intensive care, Ecuador's health ministry confirmed she died on Friday from an ischemic stroke.

Woman who knocked on coffin at her funeral dies after week in hospital

The Ecuadorean woman died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.

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[serrth]

I have always believed that this type of thing has happened numerous times over the course of history. Perhaps hundreds or even thousands of times. What must be understood is that at the moment a person is “pronounced” dead, a change of priorities takes place denominated by money whereby the death becomes a thing of value for somebody, so all interests suddenly center themselves on the changeover caused by the event. It’s suddenly a game of winner-takes-all, and the interests of the benefactor take priority. The quicker they are interred, the faster the beneficiary walks to the bank. Interruptions of this sort are spoilers and must be prevented at all costs. That this was allowed to happen—and be recorded as having happened—is a detriment to all would-be benefactors, so expediency of committal is the order of the day—knocking or screaming be damned.

 

[baddog007]

I have always believed that this type of thing has happened numerous times over the course of history. Perhaps hundreds or even thousands of times. What must be understood is that at the moment a person is “pronounced” dead, a change of priorities takes place denominated by money whereby the death becomes a thing of value for somebody, so all interests suddenly center themselves on the changeover caused by the event. It’s suddenly a game of winner-takes-all, and the interests of the benefactor take priority. The quicker they are interred, the faster the beneficiary walks to the bank. Interruptions of this sort are spoilers and must be prevented at all costs. That this was allowed to happen—and be recorded as having happened—is a detriment to all would-be benefactors, so expediency of committal is the order of the day—knocking or screaming be damned.

I hadn't considered that take before but it makes sense. An additional consideration is that poorer methods of determining whether someone is actually dead or not, and you have someone inside a coffin trying to communicate with the outside world as the likely origin of a significant contribution to supernatural mythology. In (I think) victorian times some people were buried with mechanisms that enabled them to ring a bell up top from inside the coffin if they were still alive. Numerous coffins have been dug up for one reason or another and found to have scratches on the inside consistent with someone trying to get out.