'Dead' man awakes during Buddhist prayers

AN 87-YEAR-OLD man in Taiwan Province who was thought to be dead awoke while relatives recited Buddhist prayers for hours at his mourning hall.Doctors said the man, who has been bedridden for a long time in Chiayi County, would die quickly if the oxygen hoses keeping him alive were removed, the China News Service cited Taiwan media as saying.The man's family took him home, hoping he would die in his own house according to local traditions, the report said.Relatives dressed him in burial clothes and placed him in the mourning hall without the oxygen hoses, the report said.However, the man awakened and breathed heavily as family members recited sermons, the report said.The family was stunned and sent him back to hospital, the report said.Funeral parlor employees said it was a miracle, according to the report.The man is now under medical observation and doctors can't explain what happened, said the report.

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