http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17597-2002Nov20.html
If this is indeed the case, I hope she didn’t know what was happening.
That is horrible! I hope she was dead back at her apartment, because the alternative is too sad to think about! Although how could they actually tell?
I doubt she was conscious.
At least something good has come of this tragedy. Think how many people will be saved after this tidbit is widely circulated:
Probably not, but I just think of those “stories” I’ve heard of people in hospitals that know whats going on around them but they appear unconsious. Mind you, I have no idea how true they are.
I can’t see the article- I don’t get the Washington Post. Someone want to sum up what actually happened?
When she was moved in her house, she made a sighing sound, but the supervisor from the examiner’s office said it was just the corpse making noise (which can happen). Four hours later, someone was going to fill out the paperwork to declare her legally dead, and checked over the body which had been in the morgue cooler. The investigator thought there was a pulse, but after the body was placed on a heart monitor, there was no sign of heart activity. There are some statements that supposedly a few other people thought they felt a pulse, but no time frame is given for when that was, or explanation of why they didn’t start CPR if the pulse had been felt when the body was discovered.
So the question is if she had been alive at all during this time or not, and if so, how long she had been. The details are sufficiently vague that it’s not really easy to say what might have been the case, judging by this one article.