‘Dead’ Woman Wakes Up in Body Bag
Paramedics mistakenly declared a 77-year-old woman dead after finding her unconscious on her bathroom floor, a blunder that went undiscovered for hours until she woke up while being put into a body bag.
The woman, Frances Foster of Brooklyn, had suffered a stroke and was hospitalized Saturday in critical condition, but died on Monday in the hospital.
“I called everyone and had to tell them my mother was dead, then only to call back and say she’s alive,” Kim Foster Littlejohn said. “She could have been at the hospital getting taken care of.”
Littlejohn said a medical examiner’s official didn’t discover Foster was alive until she was being put into the bag.
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