Thai Woman's Cremation Halted as Knocking from Inside Casket Heard, Temple Staff Report
An woman believed to be passed away and about to undergo cremation at the Wat Rat Prakhong Tham in the suburbs of Bangkok has been discovered alive by temple workers.
The monastery's general manager the manager was "surprised" to hear a faint tapping coming from the coffin, the official told news sources.
Mr Soodthoop said he asked for the coffin to be unsealed and observed her "moving her eyelids and knocking on the wall of the coffin". "She had likely been knocking for a while," he continued.
Her brother of the 65-year-old woman said municipal authorities had told him his sister had passed away. But, the monastery's manager clarified the relative did not have a death certificate.
As the manager attempted to explain to the family member how to obtain a death documentation, temple personnel detected a faint tapping coming from inside the coffin.
After it was established the woman was alive, the temple's abbot declared the patient should be taken to hospital without delay.
A doctor later verified that the patient had been experiencing serious low blood sugar - a medical state where blood sugar levels get critically reduced, local accounts said.
The physician eliminated the chance that she had suffered breathing cessation or heart failure, according to the reports.
The younger brother explained his sibling had been confined to bed for the last 24 months and as her health worsened she seemed to ceased breathing on the weekend, as per the monastery's administrator.
Her relatives had journeyed from the province of Phitsanulok in Thailand for the funeral rites, making a approximately 311 mile journey.
