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I have read a lot of crazy shit the last couple of years thanks to the fine writers here at Mandatory. I mean, whether it’s guys humping horses or guys plowing cows, I’ve seen it all, so saying that I am shocked after reading a story that came across my desk is something that you’ll rarely hear me say.
Well, I am shocked.
According to Talk of the Town, a woman in South Africa reportedly gave birth to a stillborn infant in her coffin…wait for it…ten days after she died.
How does something like that happen? Well, several “medical specialists” said a fetus “could be expelled from a mother’s body as a result of the contraction and relaxation of muscles during death and later as bacteria began to cause changes in the body.”
So yeah, gross.
The owner of the Lindokuhle Funeral Parlor in Mbizana where the “birth” occurred said it left her staff traumatized, as it was unlike anything that has ever happened at their place of business.
“We were so shocked and frightened that we did not even have time to look at the sex of the baby,” Fundile Makalana said. “I have been in the business for more than 20 years and I have never heard of a dead woman giving birth.”
Both the stillborn infant and the mother were buried in the same casket over the weekend, and as our good pal Forrest Gump liked to say, that’s all I have to say about that.
