Dead man wakes under autopsy knife (Reuters , via BoingBoing):
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," [he] said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
Pretty high on the oops list, that one.

Dead man wakes under autopsy knife (Reuters , via BoingBoing):
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," [he] said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
Pretty high on the oops list, that one.
This reminds of the Greg Egan story where they have a way to wake up dead people for a a few more sentences after they die so they can reveal who killed them. Don’t remember which book it is, though.
Interesting. I’ve never read that, nor do I know it’s title. I know that the Torchwood/Doctor Who team nicked it for their first episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Changes_(Torchwood)