Gogo Tshuma, a 90-year-old woman who was thought to
be dead resurrected during her funeral procession in a
Village of Chikamba in Jambezi, Zimbabwe, throwing
mourners into a state of celebration.
However, it was gathered that the resurrected woman later
gave up the ghost.
A source from the village said the incident has got people
relating different versions of the strange occurrence.
The source is quoted to have said: “Gogo Tshuma was over
90. When she died, people gathered waiting for her children
to come for the funeral.
“They arrived at home a day after her death and brought a
coffin. On the second day, which was supposed to be the
burial day, Gogo MaTshuma came back to life.”
“Unfortunately, all preparations had been made and two
cows had been slaughtered therefore people started
partying.”
This strange occurrence is not peculiar to Africa, a doctor in
Germany was charged by prosecutors with negligent bodily
harm, after a 92-year-old woman he declared dead woke in
a refrigerated room at a funeral home.
The doctor aged 53-year, pronounced the seriously ill
woman dead in March,2015 after a care worker found her
without a pulse and not breathing at a retirement home. Her
body was reportedly taken to the Munstermann funeral
parlour in Berlin where it was placed in a refrigerated room.
However, just hours later a worker at the funeral home
heard shrieks coming from inside the room.
‘Lazarus Syndrome’ is the term used to classify cases of
people pronounced dead only to awake in the morgue or at
funeral places.