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Baby Found Alive in Coffin Dies

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(Aug. 10) - A baby who had been found alive after being declared dead by doctors has died in Paraguay, the BBC reported Monday.
The strange and sad saga began last week when doctors at a state hospital in Asuncion, Paraguay, told Jose Alvarenga on Friday that his premature baby had been pronounced dead shortly after birth, the Telegraph reported.
The hospital delivered the baby's body in a temporary coffin to Alvarenga's home a few hours later.
Mourning relatives were shocked when they heard the baby cry, The Associated Press reported.
"I opened [the coffin] to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing," Alvarenga said. "I began to cry."
But Angel has since lost his fight to live, the BBC reported.
Officials are investigating to determine whether there was any negligence involved. The AP said that doctors also had initially told Alvarenga that the baby was a girl.
"This is a very unusual case," said Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric intensive care at the hospital, according to told the Agence France-Presse.
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Marthamary42

12:06 AMAug 11 2009

Chaotische ziel 11:55 PMAug 11 2009 and one more thing.....I'm not the biggest Obama fan but how in the hell except in your own "out there" parallel universe can you correlate this story from 10000 miles away with anything that has to do with the president all I can say is SERIOUSLY???? night night================The same way many people blamed everything imaginable on President Bush the whole time he was in office.

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Wrascil

12:06 AMAug 11 2009

i thought 0'bummer care paid for a bell... how did this happen? ? ?

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Blondey56342

11:59 PMAug 11 2009

All I gotta say is r.i.p. to the baby......... !!!! Some ppl are just plain stupid & down right sick w/ their selfish/ranting/sick comments by some posts they write they should never ever have kids b/c they'ed be a danger and they show it by the way they type things. bye...........

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Ronald1216

11:56 PMAug 11 2009

put all these kilers in jail mental illness or not no more excuses all killers world wide have mental illness cause one man got away with that all get away 6 yearolds will kill as kong as the law apllies to younger teens

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Chaotische ziel

11:55 PMAug 11 2009

and one more thing.....I'm not the biggest Obama fan but how in the hell except in your own "out there" parallel universe can you correlate this story from 10000 miles away with anything that has to do with the president all I can say is SERIOUSLY???? night night

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Blondey56342

11:54 PMAug 11 2009

Doctos make mistakes but talk about a major screw up on this one ! No one is perfect but if you make a big screw up like they did it's the people's/doctors fault no one else so don't blame anybody but the people who screwed up. Some ppl need to get a life & not come on here & rant or talk about spelling....... Talk about the topic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you can't get off the board you are wasting other people's time.

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Stacyaphillips

11:51 PMAug 11 2009

ems911brat 11:30 PMAug 11 2009 I myself would never have considered abortion for myself.. but I certainly think that Obama should have been aborted! Perhaps he is such an OBAMANATION because of a failed late term abortion?*************************************************OMG! This person probably thinks they are a christian too...sick...sick...sick!

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Blondey56342

11:50 PMAug 11 2009

Omg that is so sad........

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Cingisbleeving

11:49 PMAug 11 2009

Why do people keep calling the preemie a girl? It was a boy. The hospital mistakenly told the parents that it was a girl.

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Dottiempls

11:44 PMAug 11 2009

Not meaning to sound insensitive but I think they (the docs) need to be sure since they are so excellent at declaring people dead. I hope the family sues the hell out of the hospital, but wait, that only happens here in the great U.S.A It's sad but the family will probably not end up with any settlement (to hold the hospital responsible). God bless the poor family, they've literally been on an emotional rollercoaster through hell.

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