July 6, 2012 Russia

  There’s irony, and then there’s the story of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, pronounced "FagMuk" a 49-year-old Russian woman who woke up at her own funeral only to have a heart attack and die when she realized what was going on. Mukhametzyanov had been falsely declared dead after collapsing with chest pains, the Daily Mail reports. When she awoke, she was lying in a coffin, with mourners filing past and saying prayers. She screamed, and passed out again.

“Her eyes fluttered, and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital,” her husband says. “But she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.” The hospital says it’s investigating the incident. “I am very angry, and I want answers,” the husband says. “She wasn’t dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.”

The husband's brother pointed out that the casket had to be paid in advance and was no longer usable.  "Who wants a used casket?  And, the half dead woman would not want to use the same casket she was about to be buried in.