Dead Brazilian boy sits up in own coffin

[islander]

'Dead' Brazilian boy 'sits up in coffin at his own funeral and asks for WATER before lying back down lifeless'

    *Kelvin Santos stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia and was declared dead on Friday
    *On Saturday he allegedly sat up in his coffin and asked his father for a glass of water

By Tammy Hughes
06 June 2012

A two-year-old boy sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again lifeless, according to a Brazilian news website.

In a case that seems almost too incredible to be true, ORM claimed that Kelvin Santos stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Belem, northern Brazil.

He was declared dead at 7:40pm on Friday and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag.

[islander]

Two-year-old Kelvin Santos was declared dead on
Friday after he stopped breathing during treatment
for pneumonia.

[islander]

The child's devastated family took him home where grieving relatives held a wake throughout the night, with the boy's body laid in an open coffin.

But an hour before his funeral was due to take place on Saturday the boy apparently sat up in his coffin and said: 'Daddy, can I have some water?'.

The boy's father, Antonio Santos, said: 'Everybody started to scream, we couldn't believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life.

[islander]

'Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn't wake him. He was dead again.

Mr Santos rushed his son back to the Aberlardo Santos hospital in Belem,where the doctors reexamined the boy and confirmed that he had no signs of life.

He said: 'They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard.'

The boy's family decided to delay the funeral for an hour in the hope that he would wake up again, but ended up burying him at 5pm that day in a local cemetery.

[islander]

Convinced that his son was victim of medical malpractice, Mr Santos has now registered a complaint with the police who have launched an investigation

He said: 'Fifteen minutes after rushing him away for resuscitation, they came and told me he was dead and handed me his body. Perhaps they didn't examine him properly. Dead people don't just wake up and talk. I'm determined to find out the truth.'

The local state department today confirmed the boy had been admitted to hospital in a critical condition and was declared dead after suffering cardiac-respiratory failure.

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[chicogon]

Unsa man ni na case? Kanang momata after being declared dead... unya went back to being dead? Paging Lorenz...

[islander]

until lorenz comes, ako usa nga way alamag... i'd call this the lazarus complex.   

[chicogon]

Hmmm.... di kaha "tired" maong natog balik hahaha 

[chicogon]

O di ba kaha, in modern Bohol parlance: "nitugpa." Kay ikaduha man natug, ingnon na lang nato ni ug "nilanding," bwahahaha 

[Lorenzo]

hmmm, this is very interesting and i must admit that i have never seen this before in my experience in the medical field. if what the mr. santos says is true, then perhaps a reason to this situation could be that the child had an alteration in his heart's conduction system where it placed him in some kind of severe bradycardia (where the heart rate is < 40 beats per minute; note that the normal heart rate is around 60-100 b/m). he apparently had pneumonia, and respiratory pathologies are known to cause arrhythmia, perhaps , in this case, was the catalyst to the onset of severe bradyarrhythmia, which led the local doctors to declare him dead. perhaps the child's vital sign were so weak that it was incorrectly diagnosed as being dead.

i'm assuming that the child was not embalmed. if the child was embalmed, then there is no way he would have risen up because when one is embalmed, one's blood is effectively drained from the body, all internal organs are also cleaned, and the body is then pumped with a toxic preservative called FORMALDEHYDE / FORMALIN in place of blood.

rip to little boy santos.

[statesville]

This reminds me of a story my father  narrated to us,  it happened  sa bata pa siya diin didto
 sa bukid may namatay ug  nagdali ug himog  lungon  ang mga silingan kay dili palapasan ug 24 hours  kon
 wala gi embalsamar ilubong dayon.
Buntag namatay ug anang pagkagabii nagbilar sila ug kalit lang nilihok ang minatay sulod sa lungon mentras
nagrosaryo ang mananabtan. Nibangon ang minatay ug  nangayo ug tubig kay layo kaayo iyang  panaw  ug  grabe
kainit ug kauhaw. Nagdinaganay  ang mga tawo pero dunay usa sa pamilya nibalik ug  nakita nga buhi gyud ang
gihaya naglingilingi pa kono nahibulong nganong nanagan ang mga tawo.
Nabuhi gyud to siya ug niabot  ug napulo ka tuig usa pa gyud namatay...

[Lorenzo]

the physicians in the local hospitals should have implemented ACLS (advanced cardiac life support) procedures on this boy. i am sure that had they cardioverted the boy after a bolus of epinephrine, they would have easily fixed the undetected bradyarrhthmia. the cardioeversion would have returned the child's normal sinus rhythm.

sayang.

[Lorenzo]

if i was the attending M.D in that local hospital, i would have cardioeverted the child.

[islander]

This reminds me of a story my father  narrated to us,  it happened  sa bata pa siya diin didto
 sa bukid may namatay ug  nagdali ug himog  lungon  ang mga silingan kay dili palapasan ug 24 hours  kon
 wala gi embalsamar ilubong dayon.
Buntag namatay ug anang pagkagabii nagbilar sila ug kalit lang nilihok ang minatay sulod sa lungon mentras
nagrosaryo ang mananabtan. Nibangon ang minatay ug  nangayo ug tubig kay layo kaayo iyang  panaw  ug  grabe
kainit ug kauhaw. Nagdinaganay  ang mga tawo pero dunay usa sa pamilya nibalik ug  nakita nga buhi gyud ang
gihaya naglingilingi pa kono nahibulong nganong nanagan ang mga tawo.
Nabuhi gyud to siya ug niabot  ug napulo ka tuig usa pa gyud namatay...

hahaha!  at least, happy ending.  giunsa kaha tuod pakahibawo nila nga patay na gyod tinuod after 10 years?  wa ba kaha mag-andam na pod ug panagan ang manalabtay?

[islander]

if i was the attending M.D in that local hospital, i would have cardioeverted the child.

sayang. the little boy is so cute and so alive in the picture, he could have been another antonio banderas.

[hubag bohol]

This reminds me of a story my father  narrated to us,  it happened  sa bata pa siya diin didto
 sa bukid may namatay ug  nagdali ug himog  lungon  ang mga silingan kay dili palapasan ug 24 hours  kon
 wala gi embalsamar ilubong dayon.
Buntag namatay ug anang pagkagabii nagbilar sila ug kalit lang nilihok ang minatay sulod sa lungon mentras
nagrosaryo ang mananabtan. Nibangon ang minatay ug  nangayo ug tubig kay layo kaayo iyang  panaw  ug  grabe
kainit ug kauhaw. Nagdinaganay  ang mga tawo pero dunay usa sa pamilya nibalik ug  nakita nga buhi gyud ang
gihaya naglingilingi pa kono nahibulong nganong nanagan ang mga tawo.
Nabuhi gyud to siya ug niabot  ug napulo ka tuig usa pa gyud namatay...

There are documented stories sama ani...

[chicogon]

Naa baya pod mi silingan nga namatay na sa una sa Cogon... pero 3 hours lang, naulian ug balik. Hangtud karon buhi pa gehapon siya ug usa na ka musikero sa Manila 

[hubag bohol]

sayang. the little boy is so cute and so alive in the picture, he could have been another antonio banderas.

Sa iyang kalamorok, he could also have been a TB member...

[hubag bohol]

Naa baya pod mi silingan nga namatay na sa una sa Cogon... pero 3 hours lang, naulian ug balik. Hangtud karon buhi pa gehapon siya ug usa na ka musikero sa Manila 

Hmm, taas jamog utong, an!