KENYAN MAN NOT DEAD, AS DISCOVERED DURING EMBALMING

Last Tuesday, a Kenyan man lying on a table in a morgue about to be embalmed seemingly sprang back to life – because he wasn’t dead. Peter Kigen, 32, screamed when morticians sliced his leg open to start the embalming process hours after his family members were told he was dead. Mr. Kigen had been taken to the hospital after collapsing with a stomach ailment. A nurse told his brother he had died, and handed him a document to take to the mortuary attendant. It was four hours later when Kigen jerked to life, screaming in pain after the mortuary staff made the incision in his leg. From his hospital bed Kigen said, “I cannot believe what just happened. How did they establish that I was dead?” A doctor at the hospital blamed the incident on Kigen’s relatives, who he said were too quick to move him to the morgue and “did not even wait for certification of death.”
* The embalmers also did not wait for certification of death, but never mind about that.
* Maybe instead of going right for the leg slice, they should stick the bodies with a pin first?
* It must have been a very interesting Thanksgiving at the Kigen house.
* In fairness, if you’re not really dead, you do have a bit of a responsibility to inform people around you.