When a Nebraska woman was proclaimed deceased by nursing home staff members on Monday, no authorities were notified.
She had been in hospice care, which is often the final step before death, thus not meeting the criteria for dispatching a coroner, according to a sheriff's official. However, two hours later, a staffer at a Lincoln funeral home discovered signs of life in the woman who was supposed to have died.
"This is a highly exceptional case. "I've been doing this for 31 years, and nothing like this has ever happened before," Lancaster County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said during a news conference on Monday.
Constance Glantz, 74, was breathing as funeral home staff prepared to prepare what they believed to be her body just before lunchtime Monday, Deputy Houchin told local media.
According to Deputy Houchin, staff at the nursing home in Waverly, just northeast of Lincoln, pronounced Glantz dead at 9:44 a.m.
What was presumed to be Glantz's corpse was transported from the nursing home to the Lincoln Funeral Home.
According to Houchin, while funeral home officials were placing Glantz on a table "to start their process," an employee realised she was breathing.
"They immediately called 911," Houchin explained. Lincoln police officers and members of the city's fire and rescue department reacted, "and she was taken to a local hospital and is still alive," he stated.
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U.S.: Woman declared dead was found breathing after two hours, official say
