Death by chance: When people lost their lives in bizarre ways

October 2015 Dead man who came alive at hospital mortuary diesA 50yearold man who was mistakenly declared dead by doctors but was found to be alive when brought to mortuary of a Mumbai hospital died a couple of days later According to sources at the civic bodyrun Sion Hospital after realising that the man identified as Prakash was alive he was shifted to ICU however he didnt survive for longThe case unfolded when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to address an event in Mumbai and there was a heavy police security and patrolling on city roads The police on patrolling duty near the hospital found Prakash dead and took to the hospital Dr Suleman Merchant dean of the hospital had said at a press conference that when the patient was brought in he was on a stretcher and his face and ear were infested with maggots which are normally found in decomposed bodies He was apparently picked up from a bus stop at SionDuring preliminary checking his pulse and heartbeat were found missing completely additionally the policemen who brought the patient reaffirmed saying that they have brought a dead body which could have led the doctors to believe that the patient was dead Merchant had added But a mortuary attendant found signs of life in him and informed the doctors Finding him alive doctors shifted him to the hospitals intensive care unit where he diedJune 2015 Man mistakes rat poison for tonsil medicine diesDharavi resident Deepak Borse died a week after he consumed rat poison mistaking it for tonsil medicine Borse who worked as a security guard at a temple at Dadar had been undergoing treatment for a tonsil problem and was taking medication for the same While he was on duty on May 25 Borse consumed rat poison mistaking it for the medicine he had been taking He was admitted to Sion Hospital Senior Police Inspector Parshuram Kakad from Shivaji Park police station said ldquoWhen the hospital informed us our officials went there to ask Borse why he had attempted suicide Borse however said in his statement that he had mistaken the poison for medicinerdquoNovember 2012 Brazilian fisherman dies after fish gets stuck in throatA Brazilian fisherman who reportedly made a bizarre bet with his friends that he would be able to hold a slippery fish between his teeth for a minute died after the fish swam down his throat and choked him to death Police said the man was fishing with friends on a beach in Icapui in Brazilrsquos northeastern state of Ceara when he reeled in a small sole fish the Telegraph reported As he put the fish into his mouth to show it to his friends that he can hold it between his teeth it escaped and swam down his throat getting lodged in the manrsquos windpipeDespite suffocating the angler managed to get to his car and drive to a hospital two miles away But when he arrived there he collapsed and died before doctors could save him Medics eventually removed the fish but it was already too late according to Icapuirsquos police chief Carlos AlbertoApril 2014 Dead woman wakes up in morgue then freezes to deathMaria de Jesus Arroyo 80 woke up in a body bag inside the mortuary freezer but she then actually died when she failed to get out The woman a grandmother came to at the mortuary of White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles California in the United States She was found upsidedown in the body bag which was half unzipped and she had several facial injuries A pathologist ruled that she hadnt died of a heart attack as was first thought and instead died from asphyxiation and hypothermia after she was put in the morgue Her injuries were consistent with a struggle to get outThe familyrsquos lawyer Scott Schutzman had said ldquoThis case keeps me awake at night She was put into that body bag while she was alive The cold from the hospital morgue woke her up and she was fighting her way out when she died She must have got the wounds while she was fighting while she was on her way out and thatrsquos why they found her upside downrdquoOctober 2012 Girl dies after drinking two bottles of vodkaA 22yearold female university student in Britain whose life had become isolated died after drinking two bottles of vodka Zara Malone was studying English and Classical Literature at Exeter University the Daily Express reported In the last few months of her life she had become isolated and was drinking heavilyMalones housemate Francesca Parker said that on the night before she died she had found her drunk Parker found two bottles of vodka one empty and one nearly empty by her friends body A court heard that Malone had depression and was prescribed medication by a doctor She didnt go out and socialise So I knew she was drinking at home on her own Parker added The coroner recorded a verdict of death by alcohol abuse adding that Malone was a habitual heavy drinker