Woman declared dead finds breath at Long Island funeral home

A woman was seemingly resurrected from the dead on Long Island over the weekend.

A strange case unfolded when an 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at 11:15 am Saturday at Water’s Edge Rehabilitation Center in Port Jefferson.

But after she was taken to the funeral home of O.B. Davis on Miller Place, the woman was found to be breathing shortly after 2 p.m., police said.

According to the Suffolk County police, the funeral home staff made a shocking discovery, after which the octogenarian man was taken to the district hospital. Her current condition is unknown.

It is not clear if the woman was pronounced dead in error or if she experienced a medical episode that may have contributed to her apparent resurrection.

The case was referred to the New York State Attorney’s Office.

The Long Island Funeral Home did not immediately respond to the message.

Last week, an Iowa nursing home was fined $10,000 for similarly declaring a hospice patient dead and sending her to a nursing home when she was actually alive.

A funeral home worker unzipped a body bag that contained a 66-year-old woman and found her “suffocating”.

An employee called 911 and the woman was taken to a nearby hospital, where it was confirmed she was breathing but not responding.

The woman was returned to the hospice, and two days later she died surrounded by family members.