A crematorium worker in Brazil got a "shocking surprise" after finding a 90-year-old woman still ... Silveira da Silva dead, she was placed into a body bag and sent to the morgue for preservation.

The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident. Ambulance company Distress Alert said she had shown "no form of ...

A California woman who was the subject of a year-long search by her family was dead and decomposing in a Northern California ...

Mourners at the wake of an Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive. A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke.

Maria de Jesus Arroyo's case is the stuff of nightmares: Her family alleges the 80-year-old woman ... dead and put in a body bag in a freezer compartment face-up in the hospital's morgue ...

Ghana: An employee at a mortuary in Ghana has told how he had sex with dead women "many, many times" - claiming necrophilia is part of the job training. The man claimed he worked in a morgue at a ...

For Caitlin Abrams, a software developer in Vermont who volunteers to clean gravestones in her spare time, working alongside the dead is a "therapeutic ... a 22-year-old woman whose cause of ...