It sometimes happens that doctors make the mistake of pronouncing a person dead too soon. It has been known to happen that a person assumed to be dead made a full medical recovery. What is the longest amount of time that a person lived after having been pronounced dead by a doctor?

salami_swami

I don't remember the name of the quiz, but there is a quiz somewhere about a child who was declared dead. He was buried, but the mom kept having nightmares that he was still alive and trying to climb out. 34 hours later, he was found alive in his tomb. There were also several instances that one would live for days... In ancient times, people were buried, and when they ran out of room to bury people, they reburied them using the same coffins. They saw many claw marks on the inside of the coffins, proving that they had tried to escape. So they set up bells attached to strings that the person could pull if they weren't dead, the "bell ringer," then the person who manned the graveyard, known as having the "graveyard shift," would go unbury the living person. I am sorry, I cannot give you any further information besides this, and my sources come from quizzes, and I can't find them. Feb 05 09, 9:57 AM

Arpeggionist

I'm thinking bigger. One of the violin teachers at my alma mater had lived on for decades on end after army doctors left him for dead during WW1 (he died well in his eighties). I was just wondering if this was the record. Feb 05 09, 10:36 AM