“Coffin Shock: ‘Dead’ Woman Wakes, Knocks Moments Before Cremation”

NONTHABURI, Thailand (LOOTPRESS) — A Thai woman narrowly escaped cremation and organ donation after temple workers heard an unexpected sound from her coffin: knocking.

Staff at Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple just outside Bangkok, were preparing to assist a grieving family when a white coffin in the back of a pickup truck suddenly began to move. Inside was a 65-year-old woman who had been presumed dead — but was very much alive.

Temple manager Pairat Soodthoop told The Associated Press that the woman’s brother had driven her nearly 300 miles from Phitsanulok after she became unresponsive at home. Believing she had stopped breathing, he placed her in a coffin and set out for a Bangkok hospital where she had once expressed a wish to donate her organs.

But the hospital refused to