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   (CNN) -- Even in the Bible Belt, coroners don't use the word   
   "miracle" lightly.   
      
   But Holmes County, Mississippi, Coroner Dexter Howard has no   
   qualms using the word for the resurrection, as it were, of   
   Walter Williams, who was declared dead Wednesday night.   
      
   Howard received the call from Williams' hospice nurse, who told   
   Howard that the 87-year-old had passed away. A family member   
   called as well, saying the same, Howard said.   
      
   Howard and Byron Porter from Porter & Sons Funeral Home in   
   Lexington, Mississippi, drove to Williams' home to collect the   
   body for funeral preparations. Howard checked Williams' pulse   
   about 9 p.m. and pronounced him dead.   
      
   "There was no pulse. He was lifeless," Howard said.   
      
   The coroner completed his paperwork, placed Williams in a body   
   bag and transported him to the funeral home, he said. There,   
   something strange happened: The body bag moved.   
      
   "We got him into the embalming room and we noticed his legs   
   beginning to move, like kicking," Howard said. "He also began to   
   do a little breathing."   
      
   They immediately called an ambulance. Paramedics arrived and   
   hooked Williams up to monitors. Sure enough, he had a heartbeat,   
   so they transported him to the Holmes County Hospital and   
   Clinics.   
      
   "They were in shock. I was in shock. I think everybody at the   
   hospital was in shock," Howard said.   
      
   Neither in his 12 years as county coroner nor during his decade   
   as deputy coroner has Howard seen anything like it. Howard was   
   absolutely certain Williams was dead.   
      
   The only reasonable explanation he could think of, Howard said,   
   is that Williams' defibrillator, implanted beneath the skin on   
   his chest, jump-started his heart after he was placed in the   
   body bag.   
      
   "It could've kicked in, started his heart back," Howard said.   
   "The bottom line is it's a miracle."   
      
   Overjoyed family members are thanking God for saving the life of   
   the longtime farmer they call "Snowball."   
      
   "So it was not my daddy's time," daughter Martha Lewis told CNN   
   affiliate WJTV. "I don't know how much longer he's going to   
   grace us and bless us with his presence, but hallelujah, we   
   thank Him right now!"   
      
   Nephew Eddie Hester told CNN affiliate WAPT he was at Williams'   
   Lexington home when Howard and Porter zipped up the body bag, so   
   he was more than a little stunned when his cousin called at 2:30   
   a.m. Thursday and told him, "Not yet."   
      
   "What you mean not yet?" Hester recalled asking his cousin. "He   
   said, 'Daddy's still here.' "   
      
   "I don't know how long he's going to be here, but I know he's   
   back right now. That's all that matters," Hester told WAPT.   
      
   Howard visited Williams on Thursday at the hospital and said he   
   was still "a little weak" but was surrounded by family members   
   and talking.   
      
   Mike Murphy, the coroner for Clark County, Nevada, and past   
   president of the International Association of Coroners and   
   Medical Examiners, said he couldn't comment on this specific   
   case without knowing all the details, but he's read news reports   
   of people returning to life at funeral homes "from time to time."   
      
   Asked if he'd ever heard of a case in which a defibrillator   
   played a role in bringing someone back to life, Murphy said he   
   hadn't, "but just because I haven't heard it doesn't mean it   
   hasn't happened."   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/28/us/dead-man-comes-back-life/   
      
       
      
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