An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home, just to find out, she’s not really dead?
The incident, per a local report from WNBC, involved an 82-year-old woman who had been declared dead at the Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing Center at Port Jefferson on Long Island on Saturday morning. Several hours later, following the woman’s transportation to O.B. Davis Funeral Home in Miller Place, the woman was discovered to actually be alive.
On Tuesday, a representative from the Suffolk County Police Department confirmed that its detectives were actively “investigating the circumstances” surrounding the objectively bizarre incident. According to the rep, the woman—whose name has not been publicly stated—was first pronounced dead at the nursing facility at 11:15 a.m. local time. At 1:30 p.m., she was taken to the funeral home and less than an hour later, she was discovered breathing and has since been transported to a local hospital for review, starting the investigation.
Per police, the incident has now been referred to the New York State Attorney General’s Office. As interesting as it is, this somehow isn’t the first incident of this variety to have occurred in recent weeks. A hospice facility in Iowa was fined $10,000 after a 66-year-old woman was incorrectly pronounced dead and later discovered “gasping for air” in a body bag back in January.
Hug your loved ones, then hug ’em again. Tomorrow’s never promised, but maybe it is for some?