Thailand was shocked by the sound of knocking on the coffin when a woman was about to be cremated. The woman turned out to be still alive.
Summarized detikcomTuesday (25/11/2025), a woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she suddenly moved while in a coffin as it was being taken to be cremated. The 65-year-old woman, who had been ill for years, was thought to have died by her family, after she stopped breathing.
This shocking incident, as reported by the Associated Press, occurred at a Buddhist temple called Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, which is in Nonthaburi Province, a suburb of Bangkok.
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The temple posted a video via Facebook showing a woman lying in a white casket placed in the bed of a pickup truck. The woman was seen moving her hands and head slightly, leaving the temple staff confused.
The temple’s general affairs and finance manager, Pairat Soodthoop, said on Monday (24/11) that the 65-year-old woman who was thought to be dead was placed in a coffin and brought by her brother from Phitsanulok Province to be cremated.
He said that they suddenly heard a knocking sound from inside the coffin.
“I was quite shocked, so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone was shocked,” said Pairat.
“I saw the woman open her eyes slightly and knock on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for a long time,” he said.
According to Pairat, the brother said that the woman had been bedridden for about two years, when her health deteriorated and she became unresponsive, even appearing to stop breathing two days ago.
The woman was then placed in a coffin because her family thought she was dead.
The coffin was then transported 500 kilometers to a hospital in Bangkok, where the woman had previously expressed a desire to donate her organs if she died. However, the hospital refused because there was no official death certificate.
When the brother learned that Wat Rat Prakhong Tham was offering free cremation services, he took the coffin there on Sunday (23/11) local time. But he was again rejected, due to the lack of an official death certificate.
Pairat said that when he was explaining how to get a death certificate to his brother, they suddenly heard a knock from inside the coffin. They then checked the coffin and found that the woman inside was still alive.
The woman was rushed to the nearest hospital. Pairat added that the temple would bear the woman’s medical expenses.
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