'Dead' Brazilian boy 'sits up in coffin at his own funeral and asks for WATER before lying back down lifeless'

[linttrap]

A two-year-old boy sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again lifeless, according to a Brazilian news website.

In a case that seems almost too incredible to be true, ORM claimed that Kelvin Santos stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Belem, northern Brazil.

He was declared dead at 7.40pm on Friday and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag.

Two-year-old Kelvin Santos was declared dead on Friday after he stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia

The child's devastated family took him home where grieving relatives held a wake throughout the night, with the boy's body laid in an open coffin.

But an hour before his funeral was due to take place on Saturday the boy apparently sat up in his coffin and said: 'Daddy, can I have some water?'.

The boy's father, Antonio Santos, said: 'Everybody started to scream, we couldn't believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life.

'Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn't wake him. He was dead again.

Mr Santos rushed his son back to the Aberlardo Santos hospital in Belem,where the doctors reexamined the boy and confirmed that he had no signs of life.

He said: 'They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard.'

The boy's family decided to delay the funeral for an hour in the hope that he would wake up again, but ended up burying him at 5pm that day in a local cemetery.

Devastated: Kelvin's father Antonio Santos claims his son was a victim of medical negligence

Convinced that his son was victim of medical malpractice, Mr Santos has now registered a complaint with the police who have launched an investigation

He said: 'Fifteen minutes after rushing him away for resuscitation, they came and told me he was dead and handed me his body. Perhaps they didn't examine him properly. Dead people don't just wake up and talk. I'm determined to find out the truth.'

The local state department today confirmed the boy had been admitted to hospital in a critical condition and was declared dead after suffering cardiac-respiratory failure.

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[sandyd]

I have met nurses who worked in ICU where weird stuff like that happened.

[Pablo Escobar]

Originally Posted by sandyd

I have met nurses who worked in ICU where weird stuff like that happened.

Define weird stuff.

And folks, don't you think there is a reason humans developed wake protocols?

[jason]

how does that happen? Don't they drain the body of fluids?

[sandyd]

I suspect with the boy they did not. It's not required everywhere in the world.

And bodies are not drained in ICU hospital untis. It's done once they are at the mortuary unless there is some way to have a natural burial or cremation-I know it can be done with cremation still for sure.

[Mama Alanna]

Certain religious groups do not allow embalming or draining. It desecrates the body. Of course, those same religious groups insist on immediate burial, too, I think within 24-48 hours. So there is no need to keep the dearly departed around and looking good (for a dead person) for the next week or 10 days.

[lisa]

I think I would have waited longer than an extra hour bury him after that happened.

[Ross]

That is a very sad story .

It must have been terrible for the family .


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[flourbug]

I can't imagine the trauma to the family, who will always live with the guilt of thinking that baby could have been saved if they just knew he was still alive when they put him in a coffin.