A horrified mum woke up to find herself in a body bag after medics mistakenly pronounced her dead.
Shocked funeral workers in Paraguay had been getting ready to prepare Gladys Rodríguez Duarte's body for service when she began moving, Mail Online reports.
Ms Duarte, 50, who suffered from ovarian cancer, had been rushed to hospital on Saturday morning with high blood pressure.
According to a report from Paraguay National Police, she was admitted to the San Fernando Clinic in Coronel Oviedo at 9.30am.
She was checked by Dr. Heriberto Vera, who pronounced her dead at 11.20am and listed the cause as cervical cancer.
Her husband, Maximino Duarte Ferreira and daughter Sandra Duarte were told she had passed away.
After arrangements were made for her funeral, she was taken in a body bag to the Duarte and Sons undertakers.
But as staff unloaded her, they were flabbergasted to realise she was moving.
Ms Duarte's daughter Sandra has criticised her mother's physician for assuming the worst, saying he did not attempt to revive her.
"He assumed she was dead and handed her naked to me like an animal with her death certificate. He didn't even revive her," she told TV Aire, a local network.
"We trusted him, that's why we went there. But they disconnected her and passed her off to the funeral home."
Ms Duarte is now under observation at a medical facility run by Paraguay's Social Welfare Institute.
Her current condition is not clear.
