Thai Woman's Funeral Pyre Interrupted as Knocking on Casket Detected, Temple Personnel Report

An female thought to be dead and about to undergo incineration at the Buddhist temple in the suburbs of Bangkok has been found living by monastery workers.

This monastery's general manager the manager stated he was "shocked" to detect a soft knock emanating from the coffin, he told news outlets.

The manager explained he requested the casket to be unsealed and observed her "moving her eyelids and tapping against the wall of the coffin". "The woman must have been knocking for quite some time," he added.

Her brother of the 65-year-old lady stated local officials had informed him his sibling had died. However, the monastery's administrator said the relative did not have a official death document.

As Mr Soodthoop tried to clarify to the brother the process for getting a death certificate, temple staff detected a soft tapping originating from within the casket.

After it was confirmed the woman was alive, the monastery's abbot stated the woman should be taken to hospital immediately.

The physician subsequently verified that the patient had been experiencing severe low blood sugar - a condition where glucose levels get dangerously reduced, regional accounts indicated.

The physician ruled out the possibility that she had experienced respiratory failure or heart failure, according to the accounts.

The younger brother stated his sister had been bedridden for the previous 24 months and as her condition worsened she appeared to have stopped breathing on the weekend, as per the monastery's administrator.

Her family had journeyed from the province of northern Thailand in Thailand for the cremation ceremony, making a nearly 311 mile trip.