INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA – APRIL 02: Undertaker worker Leon (21) dressed in full protective clothing and mask pushes a coffin carrying a deceased Covid-19 victim into a mortuary van at a morgue on April 2, 2020 in Innsbruck, Austria. Austria currently has 10,927 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 158 people have died. While the numbers for both are continuing to climb, the rate has begun to slow. Austria has imposed strict measures restricting public life in an effort stem the spread of the virus. (Photo by Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)
Depending on how you look at this story, it's either a nightmare or a miracle. Workers at a Detroit funeral home were shocked to find a woman who had been declared dead was still alive.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was found alive on Sunday at the James H. Cole Funeral Home and taken to a hospital, authorities said.
"While it is our practice not to comment on open investigations, we can confirm that on Sunday, August 23, 2020, we received a call to pick up a Southfield woman who was deceased," the mortuary said in a statement to ABC News on Monday. "Upon her arrival at the funeral home, our staff confirmed she was breathing and called EMS."
The woman had been reported as unresponsive by the person who called 911.
"The paramedics performed CPR and other life-reviving methods for 30 minutes," Menifee said. "Given medical readings and the condition of the patient, it was determined at that time that she did not have signs of life."
All proper protocols were followed according to authorities.
"They did the normal medical interventions and that's when the funeral home told them that she was to be embalmed and all that. It kind of surprised us. We couldn't believe it," Fornell said.
He said the woman was taken to Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit. Hospital officials declined to release information on her.
