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Louise Bremner
by mistake:
> >periodically we get cases where such folk have
> >been thought dead by everyone and then were found to be alive by a
> >morrtician or a hospital tech or some other later-in-the -line person.
>
> I Am Told (just from online sources, though I tried for stuff of decent
> voracity) that this can be an effect of fugu (blowfish) toxin. In
> Japan, where the stuff is widely et, I Am Told that it's conventional
> not to bury someone who appears to have died from it until decomposition
> begins, so as not to have them wake up too late.
Leaving aside the burial bit, is it common to keep fugu victims
undisposed of until it's obvious they really are dead?
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Louise Bremner (log at gol dot com)
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Michael Cash
Bremner) belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>...as part of a discussion of whether it's possible to be buried alive
>by mistake:
>
>> >periodically we get cases where such folk have
>> >been thought dead by everyone and then were found to be alive by a
>> >morrtician or a hospital tech or some other later-in-the -line person.
>>
>> I Am Told (just from online sources, though I tried for stuff of decent
>> voracity) that this can be an effect of fugu (blowfish) toxin. In
>> Japan, where the stuff is widely et, I Am Told that it's conventional
>> not to bury someone who appears to have died from it until decomposition
>> begins, so as not to have them wake up too late.
>
>Leaving aside the burial bit, is it common to keep fugu victims
>undisposed of until it's obvious they really are dead?
I should think the autopsy would remove most lingering doubt.
--
Michael Cash
"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."
Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College
Louise Bremner
> >Leaving aside the burial bit, is it common to keep fugu victims
> >undisposed of until it's obvious they really are dead?
>
> I should think the autopsy would remove most lingering doubt.
Ah, but autopsies are a fairly modern part of the ritual. Maybe I
should've asked whether it was common in the past to keep suspected fugu
victims undisposed of?
John W.
> Michael Cash <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> > >Leaving aside the burial bit, is it common to keep fugu victims
> > >undisposed of until it's obvious they really are dead?
> >
> > I should think the autopsy would remove most lingering doubt.
>
> Ah, but autopsies are a fairly modern part of the ritual. Maybe I
> should've asked whether it was common in the past to keep suspected fugu
> victims undisposed of?
>
able to know if someone was dead or not, regardless of how dead they
might appear. But we were talking about Japan, the country that put a
cast on my foot/leg because I sprained my ankle.
John W.
Ed
"John W." <worth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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The same thing happened to me in the states.
John W.
Impossible.
Actually, I was just happy they didn't require me to stay in the hospital.
John W.