North-east Thailand: Grannie "comes back to life" as family prepare to cremate her

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North-east Thailand: Grannie "comes back to life" as family prepare to cremate her

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported in a widely shared story that a 70 year old grandmother in Udon Thani had "come back to life" as her family were in the final preparations of cremating her yesterday. 

 

They believed she had passed away on Sunday.

 

Phinit Sophajorn, 70, is now back home at her house in Ban Chiang, Nong Han district.

 

Her husband Thawin, 73, was the last one in the queue doing a face washing ritual before the coffin was nailed down at the temple. 

 

Then he noticed her breathing. 

 

The coffin and other items were burnt to assuage bad luck. 

 

The drama began after Phinit was allowed home from Soon Udon Thani hospital on Sunday. Relatives thought she had died later that day. 

 

Thawin explained that his wife had suffered from goiter problems since she was in her 50s. 

 

She was placed in a cooling coffin attached to a plug and kept like that for three days. Then the plug was disconnected and the body was taken to the temple.

 

She was transferred to Wat Amphawan for her final journey to the next life. 

 

Everyone had washed her face according to custom and her husband was the last in line. 

 

Then he noticed she was still alive. 

 

Thawin said that if his wife recovers enough to communicate and sit up it will be a blessing indeed. 

 

Thousands were sharing the story on Thai social media. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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[Raymonddiaz]

Welcome back!

[Borzandy]

Thailand is really a third world country

[nodomino]

In western tradition, the Wake...sitting with the deceased for a period of hours or days...was to establish that the dead person was in fact dead. Even in modern times, people who have been determined to be dead...even brain dead..have spontaneously regained consciousness.  They did Wake from the dead.

[Tropposurfer]

Damn and we almost had our hands on all the property! If she’d just laid there quietly a few more minutes we’d be golden ????????????????????

[kotsak]

Any lucky numbers we can use for a lottery purchase?

[Vacuum]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

She was placed in a cooling coffin attached to a plug and kept like that for three days. Then the plug was disconnected and the body was taken to the temple.

Is this the normal procedure? No contacts to authorities to confirm the cause of death?

[Wiggy]

She must've been hungry.

[klauskunkel]

Aren't you supposed to get a death certificate from a hospital, before you can burn a body?

Or is it the family and neighbors that are qualified to determine death: Looks dead to me, let's burn it!

 

[RichardColeman]

If they are so useless at actually seeing if someone is dead, it leaves little confidence of Thailand becoming a medical hub 

[lucjoker]

cold turkey woke here up?

Cool.

[DoctorG]

I like the sailors' method of a needle through the nose.

[TheFishman1]

Amazing Thailand TIT

[Kaopad999]

Have you guys not thought that the spirit left the body for 3 days, and then came back again after realizing that heaven wasn't such a cool place.

[yellowboat]

If I was old, I would never fall asleep in Thailand.   My goodness, luckily the old dear sprang to life when she did.  Did anyone take her pulse or see if she could fog a mirror?  Good grief. 

[loong]

The funeral party must have been loud enough to wake the dead!

[alex8912]

“The coffin and other items were burnt to assuage bad luck.“

In the normal world wouldn’t granny coming back to life be considered lucky?? 

[off road pat]

1 hour ago, Borzandy said:

Thailand is really a third world country

Similar things have happened in western country's too !!!

https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-man-almost-buried-alive-after-doctors-pronounce-him-dead-20190703

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/600659/Woman-wakes-from-dead-coffiin-buried-alive

[Tchooptip]

1 hour ago, Borzandy said:

Thailand is really a third world country

"Thailand is really a third world country"

 

 In USA in 2014 declared death by a coroner..."But before the embalming process could begin, the body bag started moving. Mr Williams was alive and literally kicking" .... 

In 2011, in in Kazan, Russia, as mourners filed past Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov’s open coffin, the hitherto ‘dead’ heart attack victim reportedly ‘woke up’ screaming at the realisation of where she was lying....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/halloween-come-back-life-waking-dead-funerals-mortuaries-confirm-russia-egypt-a8023916.html

[TSF]

14 minutes ago, off road pat said:

Similar things have happened in western country's too !!!

https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-man-almost-buried-alive-after-doctors-pronounce-him-dead-20190703

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/600659/Woman-wakes-from-dead-coffiin-buried-alive

India and Honduras are "Western" countries?

[atyclb]

2 hours ago, Borzandy said:

Thailand is really a third world country

 nahh,  there's a reason they call themselves "medical hub" . ROFLMAO

[dunroaming]

Surely must be a worse fear for many, being burned alive!

[sammieuk1]

She used to watch a lot of our man flint films or the pathology department is on holiday ????Rip

[Cadbury]

Some Thai politicians could be excused for looking like they are dead.

Softly spoken words like......"I have some money to give to you".......would quickly confirm if they are dead or alive.

[thenewgoo]

So...which doctor pronounced her dead. 

[Tarteso]

Jesus!! He did it... too. Wellcome back!

[Krataiboy]

When you've goiter go. . . 

[Baggy]

2 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

Amazing Thailand TIT

Complete with smoke and mirrors!

[FreekB]

3 hours ago, kotsak said:

Any lucky numbers we can use for a lottery purchase?

70.....

[Funkymover]

Me thinks it is time to bring back, the string and bell technique.