"Dead" (?)

This article is creepy.. and I question the validity of it for a few reasons:

First and foremost, did they not check this guy's pulse before bringing him to the morgue?! I've heard of people waking up in the morgue before, but only in cases of severe hypothermia, where it is possible for someone to survive with a pulse (usually non-palpable) of 1 beat per minute or less. Thus, in the 30 seconds where they don't find one, and the breathing is just as shallow, people are (were?) declared dead...mistakenly. This doesn't happen as often nowadays because there is a saying among EMS and ER workers that goes like this: "they aren't dead until they're warm and dead."

Next, I work with medical examiners, and it is very unlikely that they would sew a wound shut. It is more likely that they would open it up further, check it out, and leave it for the funeral director to take care of.

The only thing that this story has going in its favor is that this incident supposedly happened in South America, and I guess I shouldn't assume that they have practices (such as checking a pulse before declaring someone dead) like we do here in the States. At any rate, morgues, and more specifically, morgue carts, are DIRTY. If I was in this man's shoes, I would currently be taking a bath in boiling bleach.