CREMATOry IN THAILAND STAFF SHOCKED TO HEAR WOMAN KNOCKING FROM INSIDE COFFIN
It’s kind of crazy how many of these stories have popped up in the last several years. But clearly these stories of people mistaken for dead will keep coming up. The latest is about a woman whose brother (maybe?) thought she was dead, put her in a coffin, and then drove it and her to a crematory in Wat Rat Prakhong Tham temple, Nonthaburi province, Thailand to be burned. But once inside, the staff were a bit shocked when they heard the noise of the woman knocking from inside the coffin. Obviously, dead people aren’t able to do that. So they quickly opened the coffin to help the supposedly deceased woman. But the intentions of the brother seem to be a little nebulous, to be sure.
WOMAN’S BROTHER “THOUGHT” SHE HAD DIED, PUT HER IN COFFIN TO BE CREMATED
And that’s because before they heard the still living woman knocking from inside the coffin, they had already refused to cremate the man’s sister. It seems that he hadn’t gotten an official death certificate for her; probably because she was still alive. But the crematory staff were nonetheless shocked when they heard the knocking. Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, said, “I was a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone was startled. I saw her opening her eyes slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite some time.”
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WITH BROTHER’S MOTIVES OR INTELLIGENCE AN OPEN QUESTION, TEMPLE CREMATORY IS HELPING WOMAN
That’s why I wonder at the brother’s motive, here. Because his not-deceased sister had been bedridden for two years, and her health had allegedly deteriorated recently and she became “unresponsive.” To me, that’s usually a signal to take someone to the hospital, not waiting until you think they’ve stopped breathing and then putting them in a coffin, in the back of your pickup truck, and driving 300 miles for cremation. And yes, this woman was in a coffin for a 300 mile drive, alive, and had been knocking for help “for quite some time.” Fortunately for the woman, she was taken to a local hospital for help, and the temple is paying for her medical expenses.
