A 20-year-old woman was presumed dead in her apartment on Sunday morning after family members found her unresponsive and called emergency services, but mortuary workers were in for quite the surprise when she arrived at the funeral home and they discovered her still breathing hours later.
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Paramedics arrived at the unidentified woman's home in a Detroit suburb at 7:34 a.m. and attempted to resuscitate her for 30 minutes, reported Fire Chief Johnny L. Menifee of the Southfield Fire Department. "Given medical readings and the condition of the patient, it was determined at that time that she did not have signs of life," he said.