Retired nurse, Bella Montoya, 76, from Babahoyo, Ecuador, was rushed to hospital after suffering from a possible stroke and cardiac arrest, arriving at the emergency room unconscious. A few hours later doctors told her son Gilberto Barbera that she had not responded to resuscitation and had been declared dead, handing over her identity documents and a death certificate. The family then had her body taken to a funeral home and began to hold her wake. “There were about 20 of us there,” Barbera said. “After about five hours of the wake, the coffin started to make sounds. My mom was wrapped in sheets and hitting the coffin, and when we approached we could see that she was breathing heavily.” The family rushed Montoya back to the
