7. Carlos Camejo
It sounds like a particularly terrible scene from a horror novel – how would you react if you woke up during your own autopsy? Venezuelan man Carlos Camejo, reacted like all but the hardiest of us would – with abject terror. The ludicrously unlucky Carlos was declared dead in a highway accident in 2007, after which he was taken away by medical examiners to the local hospital before his wife was able to identify the corpse. Eager to get on with the grisly business of conducting his autopsy, the coroners began by slicing into the flesh on Carlos’ chin. Two major clues alerted the docs that this was no regular autopsy; firstly, the amount of fresh blood flowing from Camejo’s chin was highly irregular and secondly – and more obviously – the poor bloke began screaming. After presumably arming themselves with crucifixes and fresh underpants, the surgeons stitched him up and presented Carlos to his delighted wife. A master of the understatement, Carlos later mused, “I woke up because the pain was unbearable”.
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