37 h. ago ‘She always said, “I’m going to be famous, dad”’: Teen dies after viral TikTok ‘dusting’ challenge

Renna O’Rourke, 19, of Arizona, went into cardiac arrest then was later declared brain-dead

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67 h. ago Kidnapper sentenced to nearly 400 years after holding woman inside hotel room and raping her for two years

Ian Kroe developed a friendship with the 74-year-old woman in the wake of his mother’s death before kidnapping and raping her

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5 d. ago Woman, 88, 'wakes up' in coffin after being wrongly declared dead by coroner

The elderly woman was wrongly pronounced dead after her partner struggled to wake her up in the morning - but she was actually alive and breathing and woke up in her coffin

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5 d. ago Buried alive horror as ‘dead’ woman wakes up while coroners prepped her body for funeral

An 88-year-old woman was nearly buried alive after she 'woke up' while funeral workers were preparing her lifeless body for her own funeral, following a coroner's blunder

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5 d. ago 'Dead' woman, 88, wakes up inside her own coffin after coroner's blunder

An 88 year old woman from the Czech Republic was mistakenly declared dead by a coroner, who then began preparing her body for burial - only to realise she was still breathing

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5 d. ago 'Dead' woman, 88, wakes up inside COFFIN after coroner's blunder

The elderly woman had appeared unresponsive after her partner could not wake her one morning so funeral workers weren't expecting her to open her eyes while her body was being prepared.

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1 week ago Mystery as very healthy boy, 11, dies suddenly in bed after 'shaking'

Mario Mc Donnell was found unresponsive by his mother in bed on the morning of August 1, 2023 - the young boy was declared dead at the scene despite the best efforts of paramedics

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1 week ago Pregnant 'corpse' expecting a baby while 'decomposing' but doctors won't let her die

A pregnant woman was declared brain-dead – but instead of being laid to rest, she has been artificially kept alive as her family battles with the so-called 'torture'

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2 w. ago Dear America: women’s bodies are not state property | Tayo Bero

Adriana Smith, declared braindead in February, is being kept alive because she’s pregnant. Where was the concern for her life while she was here?A Black pregnant woman who was declared brain dead back in February is still being kept alive on a ventilator, because of a Georgia law that prohibits abortions beyond six weeks. If this sounds like the stuff of speculative fiction, it’s because there’s literally a Handmaid’s Tale episode about this. And while the TV show based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book may have gotten many things right about the soul of authoritarianism and a violently patriarchal society, living that reality is even more sickening.Anyone who thinks this is about the life of Adriana Smith’s child is fooling themselves. This is the state, boundary testing to see how far they can take their efforts to have full reproductive control over American women, and gauging how much the American public is willing to tolerate.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman says 'death is an illusion' after being declared dead for eight minutes

Brianna was decalred dead for eight mninutes and says her time in the afterlife felt like months

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2 w. ago French woman wakes from throat surgery sounding like Only Fools favourite Del Boy

Laetitia, who lives in the western region of Sarthe, France, woke up from throat surgeryn to discover she had a new accent uncannily like Only Fools and Horses favourite Del Boy

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2 w. ago Man 'comes back to life' at his own wake as he starts moving inside coffin

Mourners at a wake in Peru were stunned when the man suddenly began to twitch in his coffin and then – despite having been declared dead by doctors – came back to life

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