An undertaker in Germany passed out in shock when a coffin lid slid open and the woman inside groaned : `` Where am I ? '' The 92-year-old lady had been pronounced dead hours earlier at a retirement home in the city of Gelsenkirchen and taken to the Munstermann funeral parlour . But when the funeral director recovered from passing out he saw the old woman lying in the coffin groaning with both eyes open . The 92-year-old lady had been pronounced dead hours earlier at a retirement home in the city of Gelsenkirchen , pictured before being taken to the funeral parlour . An ambulance raced to the scene to take the woman back to a local hospital but she fell ill and died on Monday afternoon . A police investigation has now begun to probe how she was prounonced dead , even though she was still alive . According to reports , the woman was found in bed at the nursing home where she lived by a carer , who thought she had stopped breathing . A doctor was called and they pronounced the woman dead before she was taken away by an undertaker . A German undertaker passed out after the lid of a coffin slid open and an elderly woman inside groaned asking 'Where am I ? When he realised she was still alive , he called an ambulance with paramedics noting she still had a pulse . She was rushed to hospital and her family were informed that she was still alive . The head of the retirement home where she lived , but did n't die , Lother Burger , said : 'This is terrible and inexplicable . 'We are being devoured by the press , we are being pilloried . ' The investigation into the incident will decide if there had been a failure in determining a death .
A 92-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a care home in Germany . Came after a carer thought that she had stopped breathing while sleeping . Was taken to an undertaker who then heard her groaning 'Where am I ? ' They found she still had a pulse and she was rushed to hospital . But she fell ill once again and was pronounced dead again two days later .