Alive and kicking?
Not exactly how you wish to end up in a morgue.
But according to news.com.au, a 55-year-old palliative care patient in Australia may have been put in a body bag and taken to the morgue while he still had blood coursing through his veins at Rockingham General Hospital in Perth.
Nurses believed Kevin Reid passed away on Sept. 5 so he was transferred to the morgue but without a death certificate being issued.
However, fresh blood was found on his hospital gown, two limbs had shifted and his eyes were open the next day.
“I believe the frank blood from a new skin tear, arm position and eye signs were inconsistent with a person who was post-mortem on arrival at the morgue,” the doctor wrote in his report to the coroner.
Reid’s death was then recorded as Sept. 6.
Business News says a doctor was later asked to backdate Reid’s death certificate but refused and instead told his department head.
A funeral director later questioned the Sept. 6 date of death because Reid’s family believed he died on Sept. 5.
The state coroner is now investigating and the case is the subject of two other inquiries.
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