Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 4, 2024 0:40:50 GMT -5
Nebraska Woman Discovered Alive on Embalming Table
On its website, The Mulberry at Waverly, a facility providing senior accommodations and care in Waverly, Nebraska, claims it “provides excellence at every level, delivering exceptional service to each individual.” But after a 74-year-old woman, declared dead by Mulberry medical personnel, was found to be very much alive at the funeral home, many are questioning that level of “excellence.”
On June 3 at approximately 11:45 a.m., a staff member at Butherus Maser & Love Funeral Home called 911 after noticing a female “corpse” was breathing. First responders immediately transported the woman, who was very much alive, to Bryan Medical Center, where, according to reports, she was still alive Monday afternoon.
“This is a very unusual case,” remarked Ben Houchin, chief deputy with the Lancaster County Sheriff”s Office. “I’ve been doing this 31 years and nothing like this has ever gotten to this point before. ... At this point, we have not been able to find any criminal intent by the nursing home.”
The woman who was discovered alive on the undertaker’s table was receiving hospice “care” at Mulberry, where she had been pronounced dead at 9:45 a.m., two hours before the funeral home employee was about to embalm her.
While such mistakes are rare, they aren’t unheard of: see “Premature Burial in America” and “Woman Awakens ‘Gasping for Air’ in Funeral Home.”
Sources: Alex Vargas, The Lincoln Journal-Star, June 3, 2024; Jake Lawson and Emily Van de Riet, KOLN, June 3, 2024, and Louis Casiano, Fox News, June 3, 2024.
