Community Woman Thought Dead Suddenly Wakes as Rescue Team Prepares to Move Body

[Georgealbert]

 

Picture courtesy of Khaosod.

 

A 49-year-old woman who was believed to have taken her own life by hanging herself from a door, shocked rescue workers and neighbours after regaining consciousness just as her body was about to be transported for post-mortem examination. The miraculous moment unfolded in front of stunned witnesses in Plutaluang Subdistrict, Sattahip District, on the morning of 5 July.

 

Police Lieutenant Colonel Boonsong Yingyong, an investigator at Plutaluang Police Station, received an emergency report around 09:00 and responded to the scene alongside officers from the Rojanatham Sattahip rescue foundation.

 

At the scene, the woman was found unresponsive and not breathing, with all signs pointing to a fatal outcome. Near her lay her 15-year-old autistic son, crying and calling out in distress. Initial assessments confirmed no signs of life, prompting rescue workers to begin preparing the body for transfer to a hospital morgue.

 

Neighbours identified the woman only as Ms. A, a local vendor who had been single-handedly raising her son. According to witnesses, Ms. A had recently taken on immense financial stress after standing as a guarantor for a friend’s informal loan from a notorious underground lending group. When the friend absconded without repaying the debt, Ms. A became the target of relentless harassment by debt collectors.

 

Already struggling to provide for her child with little income, the burden reportedly drove her into severe emotional distress, ultimately leading to the incident.

 

However, after more than an hour of investigation of the scene, just as the team prepared to move her body, Ms. A unexpectedly opened her eyes and began to respond. Rescue workers were visibly shaken but quickly jumped into action, stabilising her and rushing her to Sattahip Km.10 Hospital for urgent care.

 

Neighbours and those present offered words of comfort and encouragement, urging her to keep fighting and not give up. The incident left emergency personnel and the local community in awe many calling it nothing short of a miracle.

 

Authorities are continuing to provide support to the woman and her son, and the event has prompted renewed calls for better support networks for individuals facing mental health and debt-related crises.

 

The story stands as a stark reminder of the hidden struggles faced by many and the need for compassion and intervention before it’s too late, even if, in this case, fate offered a second chance.

 

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Khaosod 2025-07-06

 

 

 

[jacko45k]

Don't they have some reliable process to declare someone dead here, or is it like some Monty Python sketch and nearly dead also get taken for a Post Mortem?

[JimHuaHin]

This is scary.

 

One would have to hope that a competent doctor would do a careful examination to determine if a person is actually dead before being put into pre post-mortem cold storage.

[VincentRJ]

There are many examples throughout history of people being pronounced dead, who have later bounced back to life.
There are also examples of unearthed coffins, which have scratches under the lid, implying that the buried person came back to life and furiously tried to get out of the coffin.

 

It's often referred to as the 'Lazarus syndrome'.

 

Here's a description of the Lazarus syndrome, from wikipedia.
 

"Lazarus syndrome (the Lazarus heart), also known as autoresuscitation after failed cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is the spontaneous return of a normal cardiac rhythm after failed attempts at resuscitation. It is also used to refer to the spontaneous return of cardiac activity after the patient has been pronounced dead. The phenomenon was first described in medical journals in 1982, and has been noted at least 38 times since then. It was named the "Lazarus Phenomenon" by Jack G. Bray in 1993, referring to Lazarus of Bethany who, according to the New Testament, was raised from the dead by Jesus."

[JoePai]

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Don't they have some reliable process to declare someone dead here, or is it like some Monty Python sketch and nearly dead also get taken for a Post Mortem?

But the Parrot was dead - expired

[JAG]

1 hour ago, JimHuaHin said:

This is scary.

 

One would have to hope that a competent doctor would do a careful examination to determine if a person is actually dead before being put into pre post-mortem cold storage.

If you read the report it seems that she came to after she had been "cut down"!

 

What really should be asked is whether Police Lieutenant Colonel Boonsong Yingyong, is coming down on the money lenders like an Assyrian wolf on a sheepfold and if not why not.

 

Poor woman.