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The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.

[a man puts a body on the cart]

Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.

The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: What?

Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.

Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.

The Dead Collector: He isn't.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.

Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.

Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.

The Dead Collector: I can't take him.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.

Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.

The Dead Collector: I can't.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?

The Dead Collector: Thursday.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.

Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.

[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]

Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.

The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.

Large Man with Dead Body: Right.

 

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well, the fact that recovery efforts stopped for a period of time probably didn't help his chances...

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Probably not, you wonder how much they could have helped him if they knew he was alive. Obviously no worse off than he is now, but possibly upgraded to serious or something.

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Amazing! Being dead 2 hours, then breathing again is a mystery. I wonder if bodies ever started breathing after being buried? Surely they would eventually die again from lack of oxygen, but it makes you wonder.

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It was a big issue around the turn of the 19th century. Some folks bought caskets with vent tubes, alarms, hand cranked blowers and the like.

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Great Stephen King story about this in "Everthing's Eventual", book of short stories. The story is called "Autopsy Room Four"....I think there was a short film on it too.

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Rod Serling had a "Twilight Zone" episode where a fellow was put on a slab in a mortuary, but he was alive. His mind raced about what to do, and finally he was able to slightly move his pinkie finger. The next day, an attendent opened the drawer, put him on a gurney, and then tucked his arms underneath his body so they wouldn't flop down. The last scene was his face with a tear rolling down his cheek.

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