Workers at a Detroit funeral home discovered a young woman breathing hours after she was declared dead by paramedics and was sent to the mortuary by her grieving family, authorities say.
Officials say paramedics attempted to revive the young woman for 30 minutes before pronouncing her dead, but staff at a funeral home later discovered that she was still breathing.
The woman was declared dead after paramedics responded to a home in the Detroit suburb of Southfield around 7:34 a.m. on Sunday on a call of an unresponsive female, Chief Johnny L. Menifee of the Southfield Fire Department said in a statement.James H. Cole Home For Funerals in Detroit, Michigan."The paramedics performed CPR and other life-reviving methods for 30 minutes," Menifee said.
But an official at the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office told ABC News on Monday that it was not involved in declaring the woman dead and referred all questions to the Southfield Fire Department. MORE: In case of mistaken identity, family finds relative is alive after taking wrong man off life support: Lawsuit
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