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Brazilian bricklayer shows up alive at own funeral in Brazil !

Published by Waleed Fakhroo on November 6, 2009

A Brazilian man who was thought to have been killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he turned up alive at his funeral.

Relatives of bricklayer Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night, police said.

As is customary in Brazil, the funeral was held the following day.

What family members didn’t know was that Goncalves had actually spent the night at a truck stop drinking a sugarcane liquor known as cachaca with friends.

He did not get word about his own funeral until it was already happening on Monday morning – at which point he rushed to the funeral to let family members know he was not as dead as they thought.

The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing,’ said a police spokesman in the town of Santo Antonio da Platina, southern Brazil. ‘People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case.’

Goncalves’ niece Rosa Sampaio told the O Globo newspaper that some family members were not sure the body was their relative.

‘My two uncles and I had doubts about the identification,’ she said. ‘But an aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral.’

The police spokesman confirmed there were doubts: ‘His mom looked at the body in the casket and thought something was strange. She looked and looked and couldn’t believe it was her son.’

Sampaio said. ‘Before long, the walking dead appeared at the funeral. It was a relief.’

The body was correctly identified later on Monday, the police spokesman said, and has already been buried in another state. He declined to release the actual victim’s name.

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