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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Abigail O'Leary

Three reasons you could be declared officially dead despite actually STILL being alive

Waking up in a coffin or laying in a funeral home is likely almost everyone's idea of their worst nightmare.

But just earlier this month, that horror became a reality for one 82-year-old pensioner who was pronounced dead at a nursing home before later being found alive by funeral home staff.

The pensioner was a resident at Water's Edge Rehab and Nursing Centre, and staff thought she had died.

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