Woman Pronounced Dead Twice Dies For Real After Week in Hospital
- A 76-year-old Ecuadorian woman was declared dead, then discovered alive in her coffin during her wake before dying a week later in the hospital.
- Doctors declared the woman dead from an apparent stroke, but she awoke in her coffin during her wake, scaring mourners.
- The woman was rushed to the hospital but never recovered, dying after a week of intensive care also from a stroke.
- The woman's family has filed a complaint and is seeking an investigation into how she was wrongly declared dead the first time.
- The Ecuadorian government has launched a review of how hospitals issue death certificates in the country.