By Associated Press
Lexington, Miss. — A funeral director and coroner got the shock of their lives this week when a man put in a body bag because he was believed to be dead kicked to get out just before the embalming process was begun.
"He was not dead, long story short," funeral director Byron Porter told TV station WAPT.
The man, 78-year-old Walter Williams, had been pronounced dead at 9 p.m. Wednesday after Coroner Dexter Howard arrived at his home in Lexington and found no pulse. Williams was then taken to Porter and Sons Funeral Home.
"I stood there and watched them put him in a body bag and zip it up," Williams' nephew, Eddie Hester, told WAPT.
Early Thursday, workers at the funeral home were preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.
Family members were called, and Williams was taken to a hospital. Howard said he believes that Williams' pacemaker stopped working, then started again.
His daughter Mary said Williams, a farmer who was nicknamed "Snowball" because he was born during a rare Mississippi snowstorm, was in stable condition Friday and had been talking with family members. "He said he thought he was asleep," she said. "Then he woke up in the hospital. He doesn't remember any of it, really."
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