Woman declared dead wakes up in coffin at own funeral in Ecuador.

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Woman declared dead wakes up in coffin at own funeral in Ecuador.
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Mourners at an Ecuadorian wake were shocked when their "dead" relative, Bella Montoya, 76, began banging on the inside of her coffin. The wake was held just four hours after Montoya was declared dead, with a medical examiner even providing a death certificate. Montoya's cause of death was listed as cardiorespiratory arrest, which caused her to suffer catalepsy. She is now being tended to at the same hospital that declared her dead, and her son says she is in stable condition. Ecuador's Ministry of Health has assigned a technical team to investigate why a death certificate was erroneously issued.

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