“Hey! I’m not dead yet!” — Man wakes up during “autopsy”

Carlos Camejo was in a car accident in Venezuela.  After being declared dead, he was taken to the morgue where later medical examiners began his autopsy.

After making an incision into Camejo’s face, the examiners noticed that he was bleeding indicating that he wasn’t dead.  They then stitched up the incision.

Camejo reports that he woke up because of unbearable pain.

His wife had come to the morgue to identify Camejo’s body and was pleased (or at least I hope she was pleased) to find that he was alive.

See Reuters, ‘Dead’ Man Wakes Up Under Autopsy Knife, ABC News.com, Sept. 17, 2007.

Special thanks to Jennifer Cocanougher (J.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University School of Law) for bringing this situation to my attention.