Los Angeles family says woman was frozen to death by hospital

[mandrill]

A family that claims a woman was frozen to death in a hospital morgue after she was prematurely declared dead can proceed with a medical malpractice lawsuit, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The California 2nd District Court of Appeal overturned a lower court ruling that the lawsuit against White Memorial Hospital was filed too late, the Los Angeles Times reported. Maria de Jesus Arroyo, 80, was declared dead in July 2010 after suffering a heart attack and was placed in a freezer at the Boyle Heights hospital. Morticians who received her body a few days later discovered that it was face down and the woman had a broken nose and disfiguring cuts and bruises to her face, according to court papers.

Arroyo's husband and eight children filed a lawsuit that claimed her body was mishandled. However, as the case was being heard in December 2011, a pathologist concluded the woman had been frozen alive, "eventually woke up" and caused the injuries herself during a failed struggle to escape her "frozen tomb," according to court records.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/03/los-angeles-family-says-woman-was-frozen-to-death-by-hospital/

 

[danmand]

That has to be everyones worst nightmare. The famous danish author Hans Christian Andersen had a piece of paper sown onto his undershirt, on which was written:"I am not dead"

 

[destillat]

That has to be everyones worst nightmare. The famous danish author Hans Christian Andersen had a piece of paper sown onto his undershirt, on which was written:"I am not dead"

but what if he died while wearing it?