Carlos Camejo: The Man Who Woke Up After Being Pricked By An Autopsy Knife
ReutersCarlos Camejo, 33, holding the document ordering his autopsy.
In 2007, a 33-year-old Venezuelan man named Carlos Camejo found himself in a strange predicament when he woke up to intolerable pain under the knife of a medical examiner — who was performing an autopsy on him.
Camejo had been involved in a terrible highway accident near Caracas, Reuters reported, and taken to the morgue, believed to be dead.
The medical examiners made an incision on Camejo’s face, but quickly noticed something odd: The “dead” man was bleeding. Realizing a serious mistake had been made, they began to stitch up the incision.
Camejo later said, “I woke up because the pain was unbearable.”
Soon afterward, his wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body. Naturally, she was shocked when she didn’t see his corpse.
Instead, she saw a very much alive Camejo in one of the corridors.
In the end, Carlos Camejo was able to recover and showed his autopsy document and facial scar to a local newspaper, El Universal.
Feeling excruciating pain in a morgue certainly isn’t one of the best ways to wake up, but it’s far better than the alternative — not waking up at all.
