A hospital near Moscow mixed up two patients, one of them died and his body handed over to the wrong family who buried him only to found out their real grandpa was alive. But because his only document is a death certificate he can't leave the hospital.
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Seeing this went viral, a couple more anecdotal details: when the family was picking up the (wrong) corpse, they actually said, this is not our grandpa. But hospital staff convinced them, saying the facial bones shift after death.
The body was buried at the family plot, under the wrong name. Now it needs to be exhumed, but the dead man's actual family is not particularly interested in this body. The hospital meanwhile is saying, just leave the corpse be, why go through all this hassle?
The family whose grandfather has been wrongly pronounced dead cannot move him to a better hospital because a dead man has no legal rights, not to a pension, not to a rehabilitation program (he had a stroke). So they have to go through the prosecutor to reinstate his rights.
The crazy story is true and is being chronicled by the man's (his name is Grigory Vasilyev) granddaughter. Apparently there is now a criminal probe and a planned exhumation with DNA analysis next week. What a nightmare!
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