Baby Cries at Own Funeral and then Dies for Real

[Mr Khan]

sapphi_snake said:

Mr Khan said:
これはエンバールミングの事由です。　だから、死んだ人は死去にかえられない。

Sorry, random Japanese practice. This is the reason why we embalm those we declare to be dead. This way, the "dead" don't come back and are definitely dead.

You guys embalm people over there? Did not know that. Does this practice end up killing them, even if they've been wrongly declared dead?

Well, inject with fermeldahyde. I don't know if there's a stricter definition of embalming, but we put in preservational fluids that are highly lethal

Wrongful declaration of death i can imagine being extremely rare, but in the time before embalming was common, a lot of ghost stories about the dead coming to life were real, like if grave robbers would exhume the corpse of a recently deceased woman to steal her jewelry, but the exposure to sudden cold air woke up a woman who was just comatose, and then the robber gets a real fright seeing the "dead" return.

We don't embalm to guarantee that they're dead, but it does serve incidentally serve as a guarantee that the buried are indeed dead. Thus this wouldn't happen at a USA funeral