Woman who woke up in coffin during funeral dies after a week.
TL;DR
Bella Montoya, a 76-year-old woman from Ecuador who woke up at her own funeral after being declared dead, has died after spending a week in intensive care. Montoya had catalepsy, a condition in which a person has a seizure, loses consciousness and then becomes rigid. Her cause of death was an ischemic stroke, according to the Ecuadorian health ministry. The hospital has formed a committee to study how it issues death certificates.
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