In news that will make every hypochondriac sleep with a bell in their coffin “just in case,” a 65-year-old Thai woman decided death was overrated and staged the greatest comeback since Lazarus – only with worse timing and a 300-mile road trip in a wooden box. Her brother, clearly committed to the bit, had already driven her to the crematorium, queued up the livestream, and was probably picking hymns when she started doing the universal sign for “I’m not dead yet”: frantic coffin-knocking. The temple staff opened the lid faster than you can say “awkward family reunion,” only to discover grandma had simply been napping off low blood sugar. Brother’s reaction? A shrug and “meh.” Somewhere, Edgar Allan Poe is nodding approvingly.

‘Dead’ Thai woman sent to crematorium wakes up in coffin