Sometimes
a funeral is just a mistake all around. You can't give someone an
elaborate sendoff id they're not dead! In these stories of people who
were alive at their funerals, they mainly turn out to be either 1.
mistaken identity, 2. mistaken declaration of death, or 3. a prank. Each
reason makes a great story.
6. THE REAWAKENING THAT INSPIRED A HOLIDAY
The
village of Braughing in Hertfordshire, England, celebrates "Old Man’s
Day" on October 2 each year. The tradition dates back to 1571, and the
funeral of a local farmer by the name of Matthew Wall. On the way to his
funeral, though, one of his pallbearers dropped his coffin.
It’s
a good thing he did, because the jolt promptly woke up Wall up. The
farmer would live for over two decades more, finally passing away in
1595. His coming back to life continues to be cause for celebration in
Braughing.
8. THE MAN WHO TURNED UP DRUNK AT HIS OWN FUNERAL
When
Ecuadorian man Edison Vicuna went missing for three days, his friends
and family assumed the worst. Especially when the body turned up of a
man whose face had been severely disfigured following a car accident. A
post-mortem was performed, and the corpse was confirmed to be Vicuna’s.
Only
it wasn’t. In fact, come his funeral, Vicuna turned up, drunk, causing
mourners to scream in horror. The funeral, as you might expect, was
halted, and the body was returned to the morgue, where it was properly
identified as belonging to someone entirely different.
Read all the other true tales of
people who turned up alive at their own funerals at mental_floss.
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