Easter resurrection

April 27, 2007 3:31 AM

Man in his thirties comes back from the dead on Easter Sunday. Oh oh. I'm off to confession, pronto.
posted by fcummins (18 comments total)

"coming back" from the dead, and resurrection (in the Christian sense), are not the same thing at all. those who "come back" from the dead eventually die again. i'm just sayin'...
posted by quonsar at 4:10 AM on April 27, 2007

i believe, sir, that the poster is speaking figuratively.
posted by Hat Maui at 4:28 AM on April 27, 2007

those who "come back" from the dead eventually die again.

Not to mention that they are actually suppossed to die in the first place. This guy had no fork stuck in him to make sure he was done.
posted by srboisvert at 4:33 AM on April 27, 2007

What the fuck?

In August another north Dublin hospital, Beaumont, shipped the body of a dead English tourist back to England — with a bag of somebody else's organs stitched up inside his body.
posted by strawberryviagra at 4:40 AM on April 27, 2007

That Irish Examiner story sounds like it was written by Brass Eye's Ted Maul: "Medics have been left baffled after a hospital patient pronounced dead on Easter Sunday was dramatically later found to be alive."

Even the people quoted are badly written! "It’s an internal investigation led by people at the very senior end and naturally there will be clinical people leading it and senior management are also across the whole issue."

Other than that, cool story.
posted by Kattullus at 4:48 AM on April 27, 2007

Was he the keyboard player?
posted by eriko at 5:17 AM on April 27, 2007

Easter Sunday? Old news.

Lazy med staff declares patient dead. Patient turns out not to be dead. Yawn.
posted by beagle at 6:13 AM on April 27, 2007

Lazy med staff declares patient dead. Patient turns out not to be dead. Yawn.

Probably these guys.
posted by obvious at 7:40 AM on April 27, 2007

Guiness is amazing stuff.
posted by CynicalKnight at 8:20 AM on April 27, 2007

Charles Bukowski noted that Lazarus was the most unfortunate man in history: the only one to die twice.
posted by QuietDesperation at 8:38 AM on April 27, 2007

The Essenes could bring the recently deceased back to life also. They fell out of favor with the Elohim after the time of Christ because they continued to worship and cultivate their own power rather than the Divnie Love revelation brought by the Prophet Jesus.
posted by Burhanistan at 8:40 AM on April 27, 2007

Even the people quoted are badly written!

Nah, that's just how we talk.
posted by The Ultimate Olympian at 8:47 AM on April 27, 2007

My nephew's cat, Easter Egg (given to him on Easter morning), died on Good Friday (17 years later).
posted by nickyskye at 10:49 AM on April 27, 2007

I was wondering about that as well strawberryviagra. I mean, how did they find that out?
posted by quin at 11:40 AM on April 27, 2007

In unrelated news, there's about to be a national election in Ireland, and polls say the near-comedic crapness of all the public services isn't something the voters are finding very funny.

So obviously the government parties are talking exclusively about stamp duty.

Imagine a place where the whole country is run at every level by parties whose disagreements on all substantial issues are nanoscopic, where all the politicians have the calibre of student council members at the college where dumb people go, where the mechanics of government are roughly as capable as those of the erstwhile East Germany, and where the government actually rubs your nose in it every day by -- for example -- giving the job of Minister for Health to a clinically obese moron. That'll be where I live.
posted by genghis at 1:04 PM on April 27, 2007

Did he see his shadow?
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 2:32 PM on April 27, 2007

Then his live condition was discovered.

That has to be the best sentence I've read all week.
posted by oneirodynia at 5:35 PM on April 27, 2007

Morgue officials found him, apparently awake and alert, in his bed when they arrived hours later to collect the body.

The Mater — which suffers from chronic overcrowding and, in recent weeks, work stoppages by nurses demanding more pay for fewer working hours — said it had formed a committee to investigate what went wrong and to ensure it never happened again.

Recovery will be on our terms, or not at all!
posted by rob511 at 5:41 PM on April 27, 2007