Imagine finding yourself
in a circumstance that you are wrapped and suffocating in plastic. Well, that
was the worst nightmare experienced by poor Neysi Perez, 16 who woke up to find
that she is inside a coffin and already buried. She was found with bruises on her fingers and scratches on her forehead suggesting she had desperately tried to get out of the casket but didn't succeed in accomplishing this. She never really had the opportunity to experience the second chance that she had.
Image above: Neysi Perez, buried alive
What actually happened to Neysi
Perez that fateful night?
The married teenager
who was by then 3 months pregnant was said to have gone to the toilet outside
her home at La Entrada, western Honduras. She was reported to have fallen
unconscious in what was believed to be an apparent panic attack after she heard
a burst of gunfire. But, as she was seen foaming from her mouth, her religious
parents called for the local priest for an exorcism as they had believed she
was possessed by an evil spirit. The relatives narrated how the priest tried to
exorcise her but as she became lifeless, they then rushed her to a hospital
where she was pronounced dead 3 hours later.
Her grieving husband, Rudy Gonzales narrates…
She was then buried in
her wedding dress. A day after the burial, her husband, Rudy Gonzales visited
her grave where she was buried, the La Entrada General Cemetery. He said, “I was
heartbroken because my sweetheart was taken so suddenly from me. I
wanted to be near her. As I put my hand on the grave, I could hear noises
inside. First, I heard banging, and then I heard her voice. She was screaming
for help. It had already been a day since we buried her. I couldn’t
believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope.”
The cemetery worker Jesus Villanueva heard some
sounds but chose to ignore it…
From this day on,
cemetery worker, Jesus will never look at screaming sounds lightly even if the
sounds are heard at the middle of the night. Jesus Villanueva said, “I convinced
myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else. I never imagined that
there was someone alive there. That afternoon, the girl’s husband came
begging me to get her out because she was still alive. He was hysterical. The
family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name.”
Image above: Family members opening the coffin
The family members tried to revive her but it
was too late…
Ms. Perez was taken to
the nearest hospital at San Pedro Sula still in her coffin. The medics tried to
revive her though all the tests that they carried out on her proved that she was
clinically dead. As Dr. Claudia Lopez narrated, “the whole family rushed in,
almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in the casket”. She
told them to take her out from the casket and put her on bed. “Everybody was
claiming she was alive, so I went through all the necessary procedures. We
evaluated and tried everything but the girl was already dead. They put her back
in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery.”
Her family members and relatives lament:
Carolina Perez, her
cousin said that,” Once we taken her out of the tomb, I put my hand on her
body. She was still warm and I felt a faint heartbeat. She had scratches on her
forehead and bruises on her fingers. It looked like she had desperately tried to
get out of the casket and hurt herself.”
Maria Gutierrez, Neysi’s
mother firmly believes that her daughter was buried alive and blames medics for
being too quick to sign her death certificate. The doctors declared her dead
but everybody else around me kept telling me that she wasn’t. She didn’t look
like she had died. Even after a day in the tomb, the colour of her body was
normal, her corpse didn’t smell, she just looked like she was in a deep sleep.
There were no signs of rigor mortis, her body was still flexible, it was
impossible that she had been dead for so many hours. We were all so happy. I thought I
was going to get my daughter back”
What the doctors believe:
Doctors believe that
Ms. Perez had suffered a severe panic attack which could have temporarily
stopped her heart activity. A second hypothesis is that the teenager had a
cataplexy attack which is an abrupt temporary loss of voluntary muscle function
typically triggered by strong emotional stimulus such as stress or fear during
which the victim maintains full consciousness awareness. She may then have died
from lack of oxygen after waking up in the closed coffin.
Image above: Neysi Perez
Conclusion:
What is the importance
of hypothesis when a life is already lost? No matter what the hypothesis is, when
a life is already gone, it is just too late to matter. It is easy to come up
with hypothesis when it doesn’t matter anymore. I’d rather if they know this
hypothesis by heart and know what to do when it ought to be done which mean preventing
a life from being lost in vain. A child never got to see the world because the fetus
was barely 3 months old. A potential father never got the opportunity to build
a life with his beloved wife because she left too soon in a way that will haunt
his feelings for a very long time until he gets over it. If the family members
did not think much of evil spirits, and rushed her to the hospital immediately,
perhaps the Neysi Perez would still be alive today. Anyway, it is too late for
now. Rest in peace, Neysi Perez.
CONTRIBUTION:
1. Dailymail
2. Primer Impacto
3. Daily Breaking News
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