They were dead wrong. In a scene straight out of a zombie movie, a Brazilian man was discovered awake and breathing in a body bag — five hours after paramedics mistakenly declared him dead.

Woman mistakenly pronounced dead breathing in body bag at funeral home. The woman actually died two days later in hospice care. By Peter Charalambous. February 3, 2023, 2:12 PM. 1:36.

I describe it as "the" body because I didn't recognize myself at first. The person I saw didn't look like me: his face was bright purple and had specks of yellow in it. It looked like a fake dead ...