A city in Michigan will fork over millions to a family after paramedics mistakenly pronounced a woman dead — only for her to be found alive when her body bag was opened at a fune

Feb 3, 2023 · A woman was mistakenly declared dead and taken to a funeral home, only to wake up when she "gasped for air" when the staff unzipped the body bag, authorities said.

Timesha Beauchamp, who had cerebral palsy, later died, in part because her family said she suffered brain damage from being denied oxygen for too long during the botched 2020 EMS r

Jan 21, 2026 · A family in Detroit is awarded a $3.25 million settlement after 20-year-old Timesha Beauchamp woke up in a body bag after being wrongly pronounced dead. She passed

Jan 6, 2026 · A Detroit suburb has agreed to a $3.25 million settlement with the family of a young woman who had been declared dead at home but then gasped for air and opened her

Apr 23, 2025 · But after five hours inside a body bag at the San Juan de Dios General Hospital in Guatemala, she suddenly began to move. Morgue workers were left in shock as they

Aug 25, 2025 · While undertakers transported Duarte’s body to a funeral home, they noticed it was moving inside the bag. Mrs. Duarte was rushed to intensive care, where she is c

Jul 12, 2024 · A WOMAN’S family is demanding answers after she was mistakenly declared dead, placed inside a body bag, and sent to a funeral home. Janet Balducci, 82, was set to

Feb 3, 2023 · Employees at an Iowa medical care center mistakenly deemed a 66-year-old woman in hospice care dead and coordinated her transportation in a cloth bag to a funeral ho

It was a disturbing case of a young woman pronounced dead, placed in a body bag, only to be found alive hours later at a funeral home.