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Edward Helmore

Nebraska funeral staff call 911 after discovering ‘corpse’ was still breathing

The Butherus-Maser & Love Mortuary in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Butherus-Maser & Love Mortuary in Lincoln, Nebraska. Photograph: Google Maps

Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, are investigating why a 74-year-old woman was pronounced dead but then found to actually be alive in a local funeral home on Monday.

The town’s firefighting and rescue teams responded to the Butherus-Maser & Love funeral home at 11.43am after the caller said CPR was being performed on what was initially thought to be the corpse of Constance Glantz.

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