Ibrahim Saad Al Majid of Saudi Arabia was officially declared dead at hospital and taken to the morgue ahead of his burial.
But it could be luck or fate that brought him back to life and allowed him to reunite with his grieving family.
When his body was admitted into the morgue at the hospital in Riyadh, the man in charge decided to leave the body in the morgue’s corridor as there was no room for him.
A few hours later, a female nurse who happened to be passing through that corridor accidentally touched the body that blocked her way.
“The nurse felt there was a pulse in Ibrahim’s leg ...she screamed to the nurses and doctor who rushed the body back into the emergency room…a few minutes after resuscitation, Ibrahim woke up,” the Arabic language daily Sabq said.
Ibrahim, a camel dealer who is suffering from diabetes, had been admitted to hospital unconscious after a heart failure. Doctors tried to resuscitate him but later told his accompanying son they could not save his life.“I was told by my son that they kept my body in the corridor inside the morgue as there was no room because the morgue was full,” Ibrahim said.
“My son then went to my family and told them about my death…when they all returned to hospital, they found me alive…I am not sure whether it was luck or its destiny and God’s will…I could have been buried alive.”
Asked about his experience while in coma, he said:” I think I was seeing very dim and flickering lights and hearing whispers that were rising and falling before stopping…I felt that everything was white around me but I don’t know what was it…I am really angry that a hospital with such sophisticated equipments and systems fails to know whether a man is dead or alive.”