Doctor witnesses 'dead' people come back to life twice.

Last weekend, attendees at a funeral in Ecuador were stunned to hear the sound of the deceased's coffin being banged. Bella Montoya, 76, had regained consciousness during a prayer service held in the city of Babahoyo. She was then taken back to the hospital for intensive care.

Earlier, doctors announced that Montoya had passed away due to unresponsiveness to resuscitation. Therefore, her family took her body to the funeral home. However, a few hours later, she unexpectedly regained consciousness.

This is the fourth report of a "dead" person waking up this year. In February, a man was found breathing after doctors declared him dead at his home following cardiac arrest.

An 82-year-old woman in the US was pronounced dead in February but was later reported to still be breathing hours after being transported to a funeral home in New York. In January, a 66-year-old woman in Iowa was found gasping for breath when she was removed from her body bag.

Signs of death include no breathing or heartbeat, no awakening, pale skin, partially open eyelids, fixed pupils, and an open mouth.

Dr. Stephen Hughes, senior medical lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, shared this withInsiderEvents where people who have been declared dead suddenly come back to life are very rare. However, he has witnessed it twice in his 20-year career.

Dr. Stephen Hughes. Photo: ARU

Dr. Hughes' first encounter with such a patient was while working at a rural hospital. A female patient with epilepsy had overdosed on an old-fashioned tranquilizer.

The doctor arrived at the scene and called out to the patient, but there was no response. He couldn't hear the patient's heartbeat, feel a pulse, or detect any breathing. The doctor declared the person dead, and the body was taken to the morgue.

There, staff noticed the patient's legs twitching slightly. Upon closer examination, they found she still had a pulse. The patient was then transferred to the intensive care unit.

"If I remember correctly, that person has recovered," Hughes shared.Joint.

In the second case, medical professionals believed a female patient was dying and stopped resuscitation. The woman was then pronounced dead. Dr. Hughes and his colleagues left while another doctor filled out the paperwork. Suddenly, the patient, thought to be dead, began to regain consciousness.

The doctor said this was one of the cases that made him think the most because the patient wasn't thoroughly examined. If the doctor had turned on the monitor, they would have seen that the heart was still beating.

Dilated pupils can be a sign of death or the presence of certain medications in the body.

Dr. Hughes explained that "death is a process, not an event," which can therefore be confusing. The systems in the body cease functioning at different rates.

A death certificate check is whether the pupils remain fixed and dilated. But when some medications remain in the body, the pupils may still be dilated.

Dr. Hughes said that there were many cases of people coming back to life after death in the past. But when the process of confirming death was formalized and taught in medical schools, the likelihood of that happening decreased significantly.