A Woman Was Seconds From Cremation When Someone Realized She Was Still Alive

There are bad days, then there are days when someone tries to cremate you while you’re still alive. A woman in Bangkok learned that difference the hard way when temple staff heard a faint knocking coming from inside a white coffin and realized the woman inside wasn’t dead. She was, in fact, very much alive.

The scene unfolded at Wat Rat Prakhong Tham in Nonthaburi, where workers filmed the moment they opened the coffin and saw 65-year-old Anong Chaibun lifting her head. The Associated Press reported that her brother had driven her nearly 300 miles in the back of a pickup after believing she had stopped breathing two days earlier. His plan was to bring her to a Bangkok hospital because she had wanted to donate her organs, but the hospital wouldn’t accept her without an official death certi