"Dead" Taiwanese Man Found Alive in Funeral Parlor
December 19, 2000 - 0:0
TAIPEI -- An elderly Taiwanese man who was pronounced dead by doctors after a car accident and placed in refrigeration in a funeral parlor was discovered alive five hours later, AFP reported. Seventy-four-year-old Hsu Jui-Nien was rushed to the Hungyang Hospital in Touliu, southern Chiayi county, after the Sunday morning collision, according to local television. Emergency room doctors pronounced him dead, and he was moved to a funeral parlor in another town where he was placed in refrigeration. Prosecutor Liu Hai-Lun, during a post-mortum examination at about 3:30 p.m,, was shocked to find Hsu still breathing.