It's Your Funeral
Andrew Klavan ·
Jun 24, 2011 at 4:53pm
You know, thinking about nothing but politics all the time will ultimately turn you into a joyless, seething, ranting crazy person virtually indistinguishable from a liberal. So as we head into the weekend, let's take a moment to get some perspective by considering the situation of someone who is worse off than ourselves. To wit, a woman in Russia who woke up to find herself dead... and then was. I read this story and didn't know whether to cry, laugh or lie awake all night staring at the ceiling. Anyway, if nothing else it proves that there are some things worse than Democrats.
Enjoy the weekend... while you still can.
h/t Drudge.
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Jan '11
Re: It's Your Funeral
Talk about a bad week to be Russian ...
There's only one thing worse than a death panel ... a death panel that makes mistakes.
Edited on Jun 24, 2011 at 5:03pmJul '10
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That's what You get for Russian a funeral.
Oct '10
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Reminds one of old family tales of Sitting Up With The Dead....Ever wonder why the adults made the young folk perform that task ?
As it goes, Old Uncle whats this name was laid out in style in bed. It was a cold South Dakota night with a single kerosene lamp for light with the windows open and curtains wafting in the chill night wind. The girl chosen to sit with Uncle was eight years of age. Sometime during her long spell during the night sitting next to the bed dead Uncle sat bolt upright and let out a long moan....
One can surmise the resulting events. True family story that. Anyone else have one ?
Jan '11
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Let's hope there aren't enough of these for a class action lawsuit. Was she related to Rasputin?
Sep '10
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Ironically, for me, i just this afternoon saw the twilight zone episode wherein a young man thought dead and about to be buried gets up out of the coffin at his own funeral. Just like somebody said in that episode, it is a good thing she wasn't embalmed.
funny how Fagilyu was married to Fagili.
Jul '10
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Jimmy Carter: That's what You get for Russian a funeral. · Jun 24 at 5:06pm
Ouch.
Jul '10
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Of course, the flip side is the opening of Charade, that Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn vehicle where the "mourners" come to the coffin one by one to assure themselves the deceased is actually deceased.
Coroner? Pffft.
Undertaker? Pffft.
A church full of good, old fashioned libertarians with an interest in the matter? Huzzah!
Jul '10
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KC Mulville: Talk about a bad week to be Russian ...
There's only one thing worse than a death panel ... a death panel that makes mistakes. · Jun 24 at 5:00pm
Edited on Jun 24 at 05:03 pm
What other kind is there?
Dec '10
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Happens to the best of us. When I was an intern, we worked for half and hour on a woman who had gone into cardiac arrest, no blood pressure or pulse despite numerous injections of epinephrine in the heart and continuous CPR in the ICU. The chief resident and I went in to tell the family (all 15 of them) than she had not made it. Unfortunately, (or fortunately!), as the nurse was cleaning up the patient, she sheepishly mentioned to me: "she's still breathing". I told the resident who looked up briefly from the chart and waved me off. Well, she was still breathing and then we noted she had a pulse. Needless to say the subsequent conversation with the family was...awkward! I think their first reaction was this could mean headlines in the Enquirer. To top it off, when the family gathered around the patient 15 minutes later, the son leaned over her and yelled "Mom". She opened her eyes. Boy did we feel stupid. A week later she was walking and talking.
Dec '10
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Unfortunately she couldn't remember anything short term and was depressed for the next six months when she died of another heart attack. I guess it illustrates life is stranger than fiction. Yes, even yours Andrew! It does make for a good story though. Actually, as a post-script: The family sued me and the hospital for, I'm still not sure what. We brought her back from death, but didn't do a good enough job. It even went to trial. I think I may have evoked divine intervention in my testimony. The jury deliberated for about 15 minutes and found in our favor.
Mar '11
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They need to start using those Victorian coffin alarms.