Doctor Sends Living Woman to the Morgue
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“The alarmed undertaker heard her screams.” That’s a line from a news story out of Germany, not a horror-film script.
The events that led to that statement occurred in March, when a very ill 92-year-old woman was discovered to have no pulse by a nurse who worked in the care facility where the elderly woman lived, reports the Local.
A doctor was called, and he declared her dead; relatives said their goodbyes and then the woman was sent to the morgue — where she woke up in a cooling chamber (the AP describes it as a refrigerated room).
An on-site undertaker heard her cries.
She was transported to a hospital, and died two days later due to heart disease. Prosecutors don’t attribute her death to her time in the cooling chamber, but prosecutors are involved: The unnamed 53-year-old doctor was yesterday charged with negligent bodily harm and could face prison time if convicted.
No trial date has been set. (Read more “dead person wakes up” stories.)
By Kate Seamons
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