Obviously it's a bit morbid but there are so many things that are shocking to read in this book. This is a true account of burial and dissection alive, amongst other things. But really this book is too amazing to I'm not done with it yet, but close enough to give my opinion. There are a couple annoying typos in the book bad editing bothers me. I'm really into this book just because it's able to teach me about things that I was previously unaware of happening. I'm not done with it yet, but close enough to give my opinion. Treading the fine line that separates this world from the next, The Lazarus Syndrome is replete with stories of life after death-but of a completely different kind.more While the discovery of unwarranted cremations and premature burials has most often come too late to save the unfortunates, accounts astonished grave robbers who, pulling the rings off the near-dead, have roused them back to life.
Immobilized by trance, coma, or catalepsy, thousands have suffered the chilling consequences of misdiagnosis. Rodney Davies recounts unseemly cases, both literal and literary, of misdiagnosis and miraculous escapes from premature interment.Įxplaining the generally accepted ways of determining death-lack of pulse and visible respiration-Davis shows how misleading these indicators can be. Evoking the unimaginable horror of premature burial, The Lazarus Syndrome traces the history of this grisly phenomenon-as well as premature dissection, untimely cremation, and the embalming of the living.
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