Thursday, November 05, 2009

Man shows up at His Own Funeral - On Holiday Honoring the Dead

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral. Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a Sunday night car crash in Parana state in southern Brazil, police said.
As is customary in Brazil, the funeral was held the following day, which happened to be the holiday of Finados, when Brazilians visit cemeteries to honour the dead. What family members didn't know was that Goncalves had spent the night at a truck stop talking with friends over drinks of a sugarcane liquor known as cachaca, his niece Rosa Sampaio told the O Globo newspaper. He did not get word about his own funeral until it was already happening Monday morning.
A police spokesman in the town of Santo Antonio da Platina said Goncalves rushed to the funeral to let family members know he was not dead.
"The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing," said the police spokesman. "People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case."

"My two uncles and I had doubts about the identification," she said. "But an aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral."
"His mom looked at the body in the casket and thought something was strange. She looked and looked and couldn't believe it was her son," Sampaio said. "All of a sudden, the walking dead appeared at the funeral. It was a great shock first,then a great relief."
The body was correctly identified later Monday, the police spokesman said, and has already been buried in another state.


Personally, I would have peed my knickers then screamed my head off and hid under a pew if my dead brother/son/husband walked into his own funeral. How would you deal??

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:10:00 PM

    What I would do.
    I woulda pissed amd shitted all the way outta there. hell couldn't hide under the pew, afraid the dead man would hide under there with me...he probably would be scared from all the yelling.

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  2. It's not nice to shit in church, however, on this occaision,I'll let you get away with it.A shock like that could cause almost anything;definitely a heart attack.

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