Man Who Woke Up In Body Bag Now Dead For Real
A Mississippi man who woke up at a funeral home just before being embalmed a couple of weeks ago, has died for real this time.
Walter Williams, 78, died at about 1 a.m. local time in Lexington, two weeks after shocking people when he started breathing and kicking at a funeral home where he was taken after being declared dead, said Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard.
“I think he’s gone this time,” Williams’ nephew, Eddie Hester, told a local television station.
Williams had been receiving hospice care at home for end-stage cardiovascular disease and other ailments before his near-death experience on February 27. The coroner mistakenly declared him dead after neither he nor nurses could find a pulse.
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