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A 95-year-old man from rural Rajasthan , in India, recently stunned his
family when he woke up during his pre-funeral bath after a doctor had
pronounced him dead.
Budh Ram, a resident of Bhaktanwalan Ki Dhani, had fainted on Saturday
afternoon, after complaining of chest pain. When his family found him,
they called a private doctor, who, after inspecting the 95-year-old’s
body, declared him dead. The man’s family then notified his relatives
and contacted a priest to perform his last rites. The men of the family
shaved their heads as per tradition, and prepared to give Budh’s body a
customary last bath. But when they started poring cold water over him,
something unexpected happened – the “dead man” miraculously came back to
life.
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“The priest had started the rituals and a barber had shaved the heads of
the men in the family. We were about to bathe the body as a customary
practice before the funeral procession,” Balu Ram, Budh’s eldest son,
told The Times of India. He added that when relatives started pouring
water over his father’s body, he started shivering. Everyone was
shocked, but they took him to a bed and he soon stood up to talk to
them.
“He started breathing and sat on the bed soon after,” Balu said. “When
questioned by relatives, he said he had suffered chest pain and decided
to sleep it off. It is nothing but a miracle”.
I think the only miracle here is that the doctor who pronounced Budh
dead got his medical license.
The 95-year-old’s family said that the upcoming Diwali festival will
truly be a special one for them, as they wouldn’t even had been able to
celebrate had he truly died. |