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20-Year-Old Detroit Woman Initially Pronounced Dead Found Alive At Local Funeral Home

<p>&num;Roommates&comma; a very bizarre occurrence recently took place at a Detroit <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;around-100-deceased-bodies-from-brooklyn-funeral-home-were-found-in-unrefrigerated-u-haul-trucks&sol;">funeral home<&sol;a> that sounds straight out of a horror movie&excl; A local woman who was initially pronounced dead was discovered to be very much alive after she started breathing while inside the funeral home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&commat;ABCNews reports&comma; employees at a Detroit funeral home made the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;abcnews&period;go&period;com&sol;US&sol;declared-dead-paramedics-young-woman-found-alive-detroit&sol;story&quest;id&equals;72567299">shocking discovery<&sol;a> that a 20-year-old woman was found breathing hours after she was declared dead by paramedics and sent to the mortuary by her grieving family&period; The woman&comma; whose identity has not been publicly released&comma; was found alive on August 23<sup>rd<&sol;sup> at the James H&period; Cole Funeral Home and the taken to a hospital&comma; according to local authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The woman was declared dead by paramedics who responded to a home in the Detroit suburb of Southfield around 7&colon;34 a&period;m&period; on the morning of the incident following a call of an unresponsive female&comma; Chief Johnny L&period; Menifee of the Southfield Fire Department said in a statement&period; He also confirmed that the woman was not breathing when paramedics arrived at her home&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The paramedics performed CPR and other life-reviving methods for 30 minutes&comma;” Menifee said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Given medical readings and the condition of the patient&comma; it was determined at that time that she did not have signs of life&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>James H&period; Cole Funeral also released a statement addressing the incident&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While it is our practice not to comment on open investigations&comma; we can confirm that on Sunday&comma; August 23&comma; 2020&comma; we received a call to pick up a Southfield woman who was deceased&period; Upon her arrival at the funeral home&comma; our staff confirmed she was breathing and called EMS&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dave Fornell&comma; deputy commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department said the call they received from the funeral home was for a person having difficulty breathing and that an emergency medical services crew didn&&num;8217&semi;t know the full story until they arrived&period; He said the woman was taken to Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit&period; Hospital officials declined to release information on her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They did the normal medical interventions and that&&num;8217&semi;s when the funeral home told them that she was to be embalmed and all that&period; It kind of surprised us&period; We couldn&&num;8217&semi;t believe it&period; I talked to our medical people and they said she was breathing&comma; she had a decent heart rate&comma; she had decent blood-oxygen&period; But she was definitely alive when we got here there&comma;” Fornell said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Southfield Police Department is currently investigating the incident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Want tea directly in your text inbox&quest; Hit us up at 917-722-8057 or <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;my&period;community&period;com&sol;theshaderoom" data-saferedirecturl&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;google&period;com&sol;url&quest;q&equals;https&colon;&sol;&sol;my&period;community&period;com&sol;theshaderoom&amp&semi;source&equals;gmail&amp&semi;ust&equals;1598369602871000&amp&semi;usg&equals;AFQjCNFzxStIWf6yDrNKWtFmwSoQ0L2z3Q">click here to join&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"63941" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;20-year-old-detroit-woman-initially-pronounced-dead-found-alive-at-local-funeral-home&sol;" data-secure&equals;"460cd1126b"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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