Thailand Woman's Funeral Pyre Interrupted when Knocking on Casket Heard, Monastery Personnel State
A woman believed to be passed away and about to undergo cremation at a Wat Rat Prakhong Tham in the outskirts of Bangkok was found alive by temple workers.
The monastery's general manager the manager stated he was "startled" to detect a soft tapping coming from the coffin, he told media outlets.
Mr Soodthoop said he asked for the casket to be opened and saw her "moving her eyelids and knocking on the wall of the casket". "She must have been knocking for quite some time," he added.
The brother of the 65-year-old woman claimed local authorities had told him his sibling had passed away. However, the monastery's administrator explained the brother lacked a official death document.
As the manager tried to explain to the brother the process for getting a death certificate, monastery personnel heard a faint tapping originating from inside the casket.
After it became clear the woman was living, the temple's abbot said the woman should be taken to medical facility right away.
A physician later confirmed that the patient had been suffering from severe hypoglycaemia - a medical state where blood sugar levels become critically reduced, local accounts indicated.
The physician discounted the chance that she had experienced breathing cessation or heart failure, according to the reports.
The younger brother said his sister had been confined to bed for the previous 24 months and as her health deteriorated she seemed to ceased breathing on the weekend, according to the monastery's administrator.
Her relatives had journeyed from the province of northern Thailand in Thailand for the funeral rites, making a approximately 500km journey.
