Close call

A few days ago Mrs. Merrit, in Bull and Mouth street, aged between 60 and 70, after being laid out as dead two or three days, shewed some symptoms of life, and is since perfectly recovered. This is one instance, among many, of the great danger there is of killing people in good earnest by stripping, and laying them out; and, what is still more shocking to think of, burying them alive, by commiting them too hastily to their coffins. Putrefaction is the only sure sign of death in many cases.