Beekeeper came back from the dead

A Polish beekeeper that was pronounced dead by an experienced doctor after he suffered a suspected heart attack was discovered to still be alive moments before his coffin was sealed. Funeral director Dariusz Wysłuchato discovered a faint pulse after removing the gentleman’s watch at the requested of his ‘widow’ he said “I touched around the neck artery and suddenly realised he wasn’t dead after all. I checked again and shouted, “It’s a pulse! I had a friend check and he noticed the man was breathing. God, it was a miracle!”

When the ambulance was called the same doctor who had pronounced the man dead returned and he confirmed the pensioner had ‘come back from the dead’.

Beekeeper Jozef Guzy collapsed as he started work among his hives where he lived near the southern city of Katowice, when the ambulance was called the doctor said the 76 year old had died, a spokesman for the Regional Ambulance Service in Katowice, said: ‘The patient was not breathing, there was no heart beat, the body had cooled – all are the characteristics of death” An undertaker was called to take his body away to the funeral home where it was discovered that he was still alive.

Mr Wysłuchato said: “Thank God I did not close the coffin – if I had done that it would have been a tragedy.” And his wife Ludmila, said: “I could not believe it when they said he was dead. The doctor put a white sheet over him and three hours later local undertakers pulled up.”

Picture courtesy of BenDibble

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