“Dead woman is not dead”
A 65-year-old Thai woman stunned temple staff when they heard knocking from inside her coffin after her brother brought her in for cremation.
Pairat Soodthoop, an official at Wat Rat Prakhong Tham temple, Nonthaburi, said he was discussing cremation with the woman’s brother when they heard the noise coming from inside the coffin.
“I was a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone was startled,” he said. “I saw her opening her eyes slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite some time.”
The woman’s brother had driven her from Phitsanulok province to be cremated.
He explained that his sister had been bedridden for about two years. Recently her health declined and she appeared to stop breathing two days earlier.
She has been sent to a nearby hospital.
คำศัพท์
coffin (n.) โลงศพ
knock (v.) เคาะ
cremation (n.) การฌาปนกิจ
bedridden (adj.) ป่วยติดเตียง
stop breathing หยุดหายใจ
temple staff (n.) เจ้าหน้าที่วัด
stunned (adj.) ทำให้ตกตะลึง
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