"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife

**MarquezRazor** · 18 Sep 07,, 05:15

Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:53am ET

CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.

Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.

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I think he should have hid for a while and haunted his mother in law..

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**Kansas Bear** · 18 Sep 07,, 05:49

That's not good.

**tankie** · 18 Sep 07,, 16:15

He wants to think himself lucky he woke up before the lid was nailed on ,and waking up to the sound of roaring flames ,,

**omon** · 18 Sep 07,, 17:33

weren,t those doctors tought to use mirror to see if a person is really dead?

**~~Adux~~** · 18 Sep 07,, 18:43

somebody should loose thier job.....

**Kansas Bear** · 18 Sep 07,, 19:31

Originally Posted by Adux

somebody should loose thier job.....

I'd be after the people/person that pronounced him dead!! How many other 'mistakes' have they made!!

**MarquezRazor** · 18 Sep 07,, 19:42

Originally Posted by tankie

He wants to think himself lucky he woke up before the lid was nailed on ,and waking up to the sound of roaring flames ,,

Here he wouldnt even have the delay of nailing the lid...its straight for the flames!

**~~Feanor~~** · 18 Sep 07,, 21:05

I am so not going to be visiting Venezuela any time soon.

**wkllaw** · 18 Sep 07,, 22:18

Someone's really gonna be in for it, he'll be really upset when he realized the man's alive and the boss wants to talk to him.

**~~Adux~~** · 18 Sep 07,, 22:40

Originally Posted by wkllaw

Someone's really gonna be in for it, he'll be really upset when he realized the man's alive and the boss wants to talk to him.

yup, cutting someone open, while he is alive!!!!! That is painful!!!!!
To imagine he got consicousness after somebody put a knife to his face!!!!!

**tankie** · 19 Sep 07,, 16:33

Originally Posted by MarquezRazor

Here he wouldnt even have the delay of nailing the lid...its straight for the flames!

So the smoking ban isnt in place yet then M/R

**standoh** · 19 Sep 07,, 19:40

The morgue has been used as a 'Tank' for habitual drunks here.

Talk of a sobering experience.

But seriously though, an autopsy on a living guy?

I'm also not visiting Venezuela soon.