Talk about a case of the Mondays. A 74-year-old woman, Constance Glantz, was pronounced dead at a nursing home in Nebraska only to be found still alive at the funeral home less than two hours later. Chief Deputy Ben Houchin shared that in his 31 years, he had never seen anything like this, although they do not suspect foul play. Houchin would not share the name of the nursing home that made the mistake.

Yikes! It's hard to imagine which of the three it would be worst to be: Constance Glantz, the woman whose body came back to life. The nursing home worker who beefed up and has to answer to their superior and the Glantz family after declaring her dead. Or, the employee at Butherus, Maser and Love Funeral Home who was moments away from firing up the cremation chamber for Constance. I suppose if we are going from best to worst, it would be:

Constance Glantz - Well, I am certain this would be quite a harrowing experience, and you are still close to death. In fact, a physician who had seen Constance days earlier was willing to sign a death certificate without even seeing her, which is what led to her being sent to the funeral home. I still think I am ranking Constance Glantz as number one. In fact, beating death in this manner might be able to give her a new lease on life, maybe even a few more years. There are likely few things better than being told that while you are smelling a cremation chamber, it is not for you, at least not yet.

Nursing Home Worker - Yes, yes, they got some explaining to do for certain, but they also got a pretty funny story to tell. Also, believe it or not, I think most nursing homes at this point are operating under an "everybody gets one" policy since 87% of nursing homes in the United States are experiencing moderate to high staffing shortages. Plus, I think after an apology, they would probably have a good chuckle with Constance, and a decent running inside joke as long as Ms. Glantz remains on this mortal coil.

The Mortician - This would have to be the worst out of all three. First, it would be terrifying to be startled by someone you believed to be dead. Your mind would have to flash to zombie or ghoul, and depending on your reflexes, you could have ended up actually killing the person. Then there would be that lingering thought...Did you ever miss one? Should you have always been doing the whole double check on these corpses as they come in? I have to imagine the entire nature of your work, past, present, and future, would be called into question.

As the BBC article points out, this is not that uncommon, with at least two documented instances occurring in the last six years. Dr. Hughes said it best, "Sometimes somebody may look like they're dead, but they're not quite dead." Very eloquent, Dr. H. Constance, we're glad to still have you. Nursing home worker, maybe be a little less fast and loose with the expiration dates, and to whoever the poor bastard was at Butherus, Maser and Love Funeral Home. All the best to you, this has never happened before...Probably.