In India, a 27-year-old man, pronounced dead after a motorcycle accident, showed signs of life just before his post-mortem examination began.
- The young man was declared dead after being the victim of an accident
- After being transferred to another hospital, he saw his condition improve.
One “bad judgment”. These are the words used by an Indian health service official after a 27-year-old man, declared dead, began to move on the autopsy table.
The incredible story, reported on March 3 by AFP, took place in the city of Mahalingapur, in the state of Karnataka in southern India. This is where the young man was transported in critical condition to a private hospital after a motorcycle accident. Shortly after, doctors pronounced him dead.
His condition has improved
His body was then transferred to a nearby hospital for a post-mortem examination. And at the time of carrying out this examination, according to the account given by the relatives to a local newspaper, a pathologist saw the inert body start to move, suddenly, on the autopsy table.
The young man was immediately transferred to another hospital, said the health service official who confirmed the incident to AFP. The family could file a formal complaint for medical negligence, he said before claiming that the patient’s condition has improved.
Movements observed on corpses sometimes more than a year after death
If this time the story is based on a judgment that is a little too hasty on the patient’s condition, the cases of movements observed in deceased persons are not as rare as one might imagine. Observation work which took place in 2019 and which is reported by the Futura Sciences site had made it possible to analyze the movements spotted by photography on 70 corpses stored in a site called “farm of the dead” near Sydney in Australia. And the conclusion of this observation had been that the dead continue to move sometimes after more than a year following their death! A phenomenon that researchers believe is linked to the decomposition of the body.
But in the case of the “resuscitated” Indian patient on the autopsy table, the movements were indeed linked to the fact that he was simply still alive.
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