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I'm way too old to have finally realized what they mean by "wake".
by Mistletoe 4y ago
I'm way too old to have finally realized what they mean by "wake".
- throwaway049 4y agoNot all the way to the coffin, but just the other day I saw a news report of EMTs calling time on a patient with no pulse who is in fact still alive today.
- bragr 4y agoPeople still occasionally wake up in morgues and funeral homes. Rare but it happens, though often only a very temporary reprieve. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/new-york-woman-found-alive-funeral-home/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/new-york-woman-found-alive...
- maxden 4y agoYour post prompted me to look into it, as I'd not made that connection either. However Wikipedia says that's not the case and "a wake for the dead harks back to the vigil, "watch" or "guard" of earlier times. "