Dead' man awakes during funeral rites
Pastor Dale Morgan
Dead' man awakes during funeral rites*
By Lydia Chen 2007-6-18
AN 87-YEAR-OLD man in Taiwan Province who was thought to be dead awoke
while relatives performed his funeral rites for hours at his mourning hall.
Doctors said the man, who has been bedridden for a long time in Chiayi
County, would die quickly if the oxygen hoses keeping him alive were
removed, the China News Service cited Taiwan media as saying.
The man's family took him home, hoping he would die in his own house
according to local traditions, the report said.
Relatives dressed him in burial clothes and placed him in the mourning
hall without the oxygen hoses, the report said.
However, the man awakened and breathed heavily as family members recited
funeral rites, the report said.
The family was stunned and sent him back to hospital, the report said.
Funeral parlor employees said it was a miracle, according to the report.
The man is now under medical observation and doctors can't explain what
happened, said the report.