Staff were so convinced that Lydia Paillard, 60, had passed away they asked her family if they could switch her life support machine off. Then she suddenly woke up.
Mrs Paillard had walked into a clinic in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on Monday for a chemotherapy session but after being put on a drip and taking pills, she went blue, fell into a coma and was pronounced "dead".
"We were told that she had passed away, that ... she wouldn't come back," said Sébastien Paillard, one of her three sons at their mother's bedside.
Despite the doctors' assurances, the sons could not bring themselves to switch off respiratory support and she was transferred to another wing of the hospital.
That afternoon, staff in the new clinic said they had noticed encouraging signs of brain activity.
Finally, some 14 hours after she had officially died, Mrs Paillard suddenly woke up. Turning to her incredulous son, Sébastien, she said: "Ah, I feel so good, I had a wonderful sleep."
"To think we were about to give permission to kill our mother," Mr Paillard told France's Sud Ouest newspaper, adding that until now his family had full confidence in hospital staff.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8076243/French-cancer-patient-wakes-up-14-hours-after-being-pronounced-dead.html
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