Last week I read Everything’s Eventual, a book of short stories by Stephen King. Most of them weren’t really my thing, but there were a few that I got into. The one that really messed with me, though, was “Autopsy Room 4”, about a man who is alive but paralyzed describing the things he sees, hears, and feels during the fearful moments before the medical examiner cuts into him.

The idea of being conscious of everything that happens after death kind of scared me. Worse, the idea of actually not being dead but knowing that you will be if they start cutting into you.

Funny, then, that I see this story today about that actually happening. The medical examiners thought it weird when Carlos Camejo’s “corpse” started bleeding. When they started stitching his wound, the pain woke him up. He wasn’t dead at all!