This Exists: Russian Woman Reportedly Dies Of Heart Attack…After Waking Up At Her Own Funeral

by Jon Bershad | 12:52 pm, June 24th, 2011

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I think this is the most insane story I’ve written about on this site since the tale of the drunk Serbian man who killed a shark. That story, of course, turned out to be false so I’m going to continue checking in on this one. At this point, however, news outlets like The Sun and Fox News have picked up the bizarre story of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, a Russian woman who died…at her own funeral.

According to the stories, Mukhametzyanov was incorrectly declared dead at a hospital in Kazan. She woke up to find herself surrounded by mourners and being prepared for burial. This caused such a fright that she ended up having a heart attack.

From The Daily Mail:

“Devastated husband Fagili Mukhametzyanov, 51, had been told his wife had died of a heart attack after she’d collapsed at home suffering from chest pains.

Mr Mukhametzyanov said: ‘Her eyes fluttered and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital but she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.

‘I am very angry and want answers. She wasn’t dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.’

Hospital spokesman Minsalih Sahapov said: ‘We are carrying out an investigation.’”

There are a few things that don’t sit right with me here. The fact that every news story uses the exact same picture of the married couple. The fact that none of them have the name of the hospital. And, especially, the fact that I can find a news report on this in every language except Russian. However, sometimes strange things happen. Still, I hope for the (perhaps fictional) Mukhametzyanov family that this terrible event never actually happened.

(h/t Reddit)

This Exists

Just4thefax

Fact: Wow.. sad…
LOGICandREASON

This sounds more funny than sad, I hope it’s a joke
puck30

Damn! that Russian vodka sure has a kick to it. Who knows? maybe she met up with Bela Lougosi.

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Paul G

..And then she died again when she found out no one showed up at her second funeral. Ha!
Tedderman

I’m sure this story’s made up, why would a shark be drinking in a Serbian bar?
Colorado_Conservative

Find it kinda ironic that Jon chose to mention Fox to bring credibility to this story when the liberal motto is to bash Fox whenever possible as not a credible news source….then again liberals like to have it both ways depending on their agenda!!
Gorgegirl

Colorado_Conservative said:
Find it kinda ironic that Jon chose to mention Fox to bring credibility to this story when the liberal motto is to bash Fox whenever possible as not a credible news source….then again liberals like to have it both ways depending on their agenda!!

Actually, when one reads it was reported on FOX, you have to consider the source and figure it isn’t true. They don’t know how to report TRUTH on FOX. They do some pretty good edits to stories, thanks to Andrew Brietbart.
Paleoconservatarian

Colorado_Conservative said:
Find it kinda ironic that Jon chose to mention Fox to bring credibility to this story when the liberal motto is to bash Fox whenever possible as not a credible news source….then again liberals like to have it both ways depending on their agenda!!

You have to imagine the article is a set up for a discrediting so to feed the narrative Gorgegirl vomited out with a good deal of bile, though all Fox did was repost the story as it ran in Murdoch’s sister publicans, the Sun. Otherwise, the article might have sourced the Daily Mail, another English rag, or any of a dozen or more sites that reported virtually the same story word for word earlier than Fox had.
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Bela LUGOSI was Hungarian, not Russian.
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oh ?
Anonymous

you consider The Sun to be a news outlet? please. Daily Mail is only slightly better. Fox News? a bit above those two British outlets but still not good.