'Dead' man awakens before autopsy, shocks doctors by asking for glass of water

Beware of zombies!!!!!

Who spilled the worstechire (sp?) sauce on him?

Two awful comments so far.

No remarks about the blatant disregard for life?

I am constantly disappointed by most of the other users on current.

It seems like people just leave quick little comments to see if they will make it on air.

id piss my pants if i was one of the docters.

or just being sarcastic..........

Well, at least they hadn't started yet. That would be tragic.

I can't believe things like this slip through. My niece had pneumonia for three months and despite constant doctor visits and check-ins, no one thought to do a chest x-ray until a week ago.

Public health...sigh.

scary... what about family members, where were they?

thats amazing.. although he was probably just knocked into a slight coma...... and when you 150 people.. that you know most are going to be dead anyway... i doubt they would do the first "checks"... they were gonna go to the hospitals (or the morgue) anyway... they would have checked them there....

Whoa. I wonder how many they autopsied that were still "alive"?

Braaaaains!

Wow what a story.

I understand they were probably trying to clear the road as quickly as possible, but...NO checks at all? Come on guys, how long does it take to feel for a pulse?

Holy crap, that's crazy

Are you kiiddddinngg me. Dont you still breath when your knocked unconsious or in a coma. I mean cmmoonnn

Hey, let's all go out and get matching pilgrim tattoos!

Man he is so lucky, just a little bit more time unconscious and they would really have killed this comatose man. Yikes!

In all fairness, if you were handling what you thought were scores of dead bodies, you'd want the job to be over as soon as possible, wouldn't you? It's hardly the fault of the lower-level workers if they assume one comatose, barely alive body is like the hundred+ corpses around it.

I have to agree with those whom are taken aback by the crude and ill-humored comments left by others in response to this clip. I understand finding humor in what can be daunting news, but it seems immature, non-compassionate and, frankly, unintelligent that people are actually taking the time to post irrelevant comments about zombies, etc., in response to a story like this one.

I don't know about the rest of you but this story seems to reveal some rather non-humanitarian efforts to... clean up ( for lack of a better term)... a really ugly mess; and I think the fact that this guy was being prepared for postmortem when he was in fact still alive should be questioned and challenged.

Can we deny that if the scene had occurred in the middle of Manhattan and not on a hilltop in a developing country, our reactions may have been quite drastically different?

Wow, I'm just glad he woke up in time before the autopsy. But how could they not check properly to see if any of the people were still alive?

This is frightening! It reminds me of a Stephen King story called "Autopsy Room Four"...

If someone is unconscious and you start to autopsy them, will they show signs of life before it's too late?

this is why i work in medicine, the human existence amazes me in every form

I hope the rumor initiator gets murder 1.

That's crazy! How would you like to wake up with a bunch of dead bodies around you only to find that they had declared you dead? I can't believe that they didn't even bother checking if any other people in the accident were still alive. That's inhumane!

Whoever pronounced death must not have been a very good examiner.