Second opinion for 'glowing' dead body

Baack · Aug 27, 2009

RELATIVES of a dead man in Spain asked a doctor to confirm his death a second time because his body showed no signs of going pale hours after he passed away.

The 70-year-old died of a heart attack and his body was on display at a funeral home in Lorca, a city of some 90,000 people in southern Spain, when his family noticed that it still had a healthy pink glow, a spokesman for the funeral home said.

They then called in the doctor to confirm that their loved one was in fact dead.

The doctor concluded that the man still had a healthy glow, despite having passed away, because the pacemaker he was wearing was still running
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...lowing-dead-body/story-e6freuz9-1225766614539

PharmPhail · Aug 27, 2009

ewww! His heart is gonna be beating for years!!

kickin chicken · Aug 27, 2009

PharmPhail said: ↑

ewww! His heart is gonna be beating for years!!
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.....Yuck!!!

kajidono · Aug 27, 2009

Wait, he had a heart attack and died but his heart is still beating?

GuysLady · Aug 28, 2009

How can you be dead if your heart is beating???

leannamarie · Aug 28, 2009

When my mother died, her heart was still beating slowly after she was dead. I wasn't prepared for that.

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