I read the most unbelievable story in the paper yesterday.

A man had a massive stroke and did`nt realise he was already dead.
With Rigor mortis setting in, he rang his doctor, when the doctor came he saw his patient was pale and not his normal self and realising the patient had died he broke the news to him.

At the shock of being told he was dead the shock killed him again.

His neighbour said "he was sorry he had died without realising it"

I might be a bit nutty and strange but this beats anything I have read for a while. My son could not stop laughing but I am not sure if it was at the story or a me for trying to understand what I had read.

Why do papers print such utter rubbish.

was it the sunday sport you read it in?.:heyhey: :heyhey:

It was. Did you read it as well ?

I buy it every Sunday for my son before he plays rugby and it`s the first time I have read it for months.

I still can`t believe they print such stories. It reminds me of Weekend and Titbits when I was much younger. They had unreal stories in a well but good for a laugh.

no rosie i didnt see it, just awild guess. the lads at work sometimesbuy it but its not the most informative paper is it really.:heyhey: :heyhey:

No its not informative but we all want a laugh don`t we ?

Originally posted by rosie
A man had a massive stroke and did`nt realise he was already dead.
With Rigor mortis setting in, he rang his doctor, when the doctor came he saw his patient was pale and not his normal self and realising the patient had died he broke the news to him.

At the shock of being told he was dead the shock killed him again.

Isn't there a medical condition where someone can appear to be dead but isn't? I wonder if it's possible for just the body (not the mind) to go into that state, and the body starts shutting itself down while the person is still alive. Sounds a bit far fetched to me.

It reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide, when the Krikkit robots shoot Zaphod.

"Zaphod was so surprised that they had to shoot him again before he fell down."

Originally posted by rosie
Why do papers print such utter rubbish.

Because (some) people like to read utter rubbish. Dunno why.

Originally posted by spiffymonkey
Isn't there a medical condition where someone can appear to be dead but isn't? I wonder if it's possible for just the body (not the mind) to go into that state, and the body starts shutting itself down while the person is still alive. Sounds a bit far fetched to me.


There was an episode of CSI where that happened, it was some kind of coma. And I have read about people coming back to life on the autopsy table.

I have never heard about people coming back to life on the autopsy table but dead bodies do twitch for a time after death. It's something to do with the neural impulses in the body. I've read that some of this twitching can be quite dramatic, like whole arm movements etc but don't know how true it all is...

Perhaps "come back to life" was the wrong phrase, I have read about people being pronounced dead only to turn out to be alive when they started the autopsy.

I really don't think he was actually dead the first time. If he had rigor mortis setting in, how did pick up the phone and call the doctor?? Rigor mortis won't occur for a little while after death so I don't think this would have happened, but he may have had some kind of muscle spasm or something. As mentioned, people can be mistaken for dead when in a deep coma but I really don't think he would have been able to speak or operate a telephone.

Dead people can twitch and perform all sorts of bodily functions, oooo thats made me think of a good post for the farting thread..... :bigsmile:

Some things are strange. Like in Australia up is down and down is up. Of course, they believe this to be the case in Britain, but if up is down and down is up over here how can that be the case over there?

So we have to name a reference point on earth where up is actually up and down is actually down and calculate just where exactly ups and downs occur in the negative forms.

I mean, if up is up in the nothern hemisphere, but down in the southern hemisphere, would up and down both be across on the equator?

A friend of mine is nicknamed "resurrection man".

He was attacked, violently, a number of years ago, by a gang of blokes wielding iron bars. He was beaten severely about the head, and his skull was caved in, and one of his ears was ripped off.

He was a complete mess. his heart was stopped by the time the ambulance crew got to him

He had lost a heck of a lot of blood.

The docs were ready to "pronounce him" when he arrived at the hospital.

His injuries were very close to being "incompatible with life".

He was in a coma for quite a while

His heart stopped seven times, and it was only by some miracle that this friend of mine survived.

He described to me, when recounting the tale, a few years after, a classic "Near-Death Experience"; the whole shebang, with a bright white tunnel and a light.

He had to learn to walk, and talk again, at the age of thirty-odd. (Although he still has a few problems, as a result of the brain-damage)

This bloke rebuilt his life, and, he claimed has now built himself a different, much more positive , less hedonistic life since his recovery. he also now, has a profound faith, where before he was disintersted in faith, and morals.

PT