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They were dead wrong.

In a scene straight out of a zombie movie, a Brazilian man was discovered awake and breathing in a body bag — five hours after paramedics mistakenly declared him dead.

“The funeral home worker called me, desperately asking me to go there, that my brother was alive,” the victim’s sister Aparecida told Jam Press of the premature death pronouncement, which occurred late last month at the Hospital Estadual do Centro-Norte in Goiano.

The pre-mortem man, Jose Ribeiro da Silva, 62, had been declared dead on November 29 with officials listing the official cause as complications (biến chứng) from mouth cancer (ung thư vòm miệng).

The hospital even handed his family a death certificate (giấy chứng tử).

Aparecida said she received the news at around 8 p.m., whereupon her brother’s corpse (tử thi) was released to the mourning family so they could start preparing the funeral arrangements.

Little did they know, their beloved relative was still very much alive.

From there, da Silva spent a grueling five hours in the body bag as he was ferried from the medical facility to a funeral home, which was located over 62 miles away in the municipality of Rialma.

It wasn’t until 1 a.m. the following day that mortuary (nhà xác) workers realized there had been a terrible mistake. A flabbergasted employee had opened the bag to see that the victim’s eyes were open and he was still breathing, albeit with some difficulty, like a reverse scenario of “Weekend at Bernie’s.”

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