Have You Ever Been Dead?

[10ClarionSt]

A bizarre question I know. I don't mean sloshed out of your head or similar. Many years ago, my uncle passed away, but his wife had a similar christian name to Mrs Clarion and the word got round that her husband (Mrs Clarions') had passed away. In the next few weeks around the town, I was stopped by a few people who were shocked at seeing me. (I know, I have that effect on people!) I had to keep explainig that news of my premature death had been greatly exaggerated. (Who said that?) Anyway, another time, on a Sunday afternoon, the local undertaker knocked on my door and said he'd come to collect the body of Mr. Clarion. I burst out laughing and said I wasn't ready for him yet. He looked puzzled and said he'd been told that Dr so and so had issued a death certificate for me. I said I couldn't believe he would do this without verifying who was informing him. However, he apologised and left. I still smile about that.

[Gromit]

You were very lucky.
The undertakers I know are very strict on procedure and tradition.

They would have insisted you acquiesced or been set to the fiery pit below.

[wolf63]

I know that cats have nine lives but not humans.

I have heard of people turning up at the wrong funeral.

Good night! Sleep tight

[10ClarionSt]

Both of these are absolutely true. The first one was in 1983 and the second in 1992.

[sandyRoe]

A neighbour who mistakenly thought I'd been killed in a traffic accident fainted when she saw me leaving my flat. She though I was a ghost.
That's the closest I've got so far to being dead.

[LadyCG]

Never happened to me, 10c, and I suppose you can laugh looking back now but I suppose that's what happens when people go around spreading gossip without fact checking first.

[Peter Pedant]

I was involved with an injured vagabond that a passerby had covered with his jacket ( marked Smith). We rang up Mrs Smith and before we cd say he's a deader, she added, and Mr Smith has just walked thro the door!

Believing you are dead - is a feature of Cotards syndrome. You know sackler and fentanyl? I was given too much Fent in Hospital 1999 ( ca colon therapy, guts out etc) and got that, and demanded to be taken to the mortuary.
Taken off morph ( no pain at all readers!). Red card to ministry. A surgeon no less saying I had been so badly affected ('on a scale of one to ten? above ten) I needed a psychiatrist. Just stop the fent I replied sulkily.
and a few days later, said
" I am feeling REALLY weird. It cannot be fentanyl. and the feeling has COME again!!!!" Cue X files music. do-do -di -do....
and little nursey said: no one crossed it off your scrip so we put you back on it
oo-er nursey! and junior doc! and note keeping! and patient transfer of info! and critical incident sheets, and the box: was the patient harmed? - was it ticked.....and what did Matron say when she popped her head in five days later?

I am OK with it - I was given a drug which led directly to a psychosis - and then they gave it to me again.

[naomi24]

No, but I once mistakenly reported that someone who was very much alive had died. Fortunately he had a sense of humour.

[mushroom25]

years ago i was on a business trip in Scotland, and my host collected me from Glasgow airport for a trip to Kilmarnock. as he drove along the A77, he told me he'd been killed on this road at least 3 times in the past ten years. turns out he had a very common name around those parts, his family had kinda got used to his demise being as frequent as the coyote in the roadrunner cartoons.....

[Peter Pedant]

judging by the dearth of posts
most of AB obviously are ! hur hur hur