In an amazing comeback to the death - a 90-year-old woman, Norma Silveira da Silva, who had been declared dead by doctors, was discovered alive in a body bag by a crematorium worker in Brazil.
Norma was found still breathing left horrible for the crematorium worker.
The shocking incident occurred at Sao Jose Regional Hospital in Greater Florianopolis on November 25, at 11:40 pm.
Norma had been pronounced dead after doctors declared her passing in the early hours of Monday morning. Caregiver Jessica Martins Silvi Pereira, who accompanied Norma to the hospital, said:
'It's a case of neglect that I would not wish on anyone.'
'On Saturday afternoon, I went to visit her and she opened her eye,' Jessica told local media.
'She didn't have much stimulation, but she managed to open her eyes and saw that we were there.'
On Saturday evening, the family received the devastating news of Norma's alleged demise, with her first death certificate citing infection as the cause.
The body was swiftly sent to the morgue without allowing the family a final farewell. It was during the preparation for cremation that the crematorium worker discovered Norma was still alive. According to Jessica, the worker found her breathing weakly, having spent nearly two hours inside the body bag without conscious awareness.
She said: 'When he opened the bag she was breathing very weakly.
'And, as she was no longer conscious, she couldn't ask for help, she tried to breathe and couldn't.
'I mean, from 11:40 pm until 1:30 am she was inside the bag almost dying asphyxiated.'
As a crematorium worker, her skin was still warm. she was seen struggling for breath despite the fact she had been declared dead at the Sao Jose Regional Hospital, in Greater Florianopolis.
Norma's family, left in the dark about the actual cause of death, has been issued a second death certificate listing "septic shock" caused by "sepsis with an undefined focus" as the official cause.
Hospital officials have launched an investigation into the circumstances that led to Norma being sent to the morgue while still alive and kept in a body bag for an extended period.
