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Heartbroken man climbs into morgue freezer 

Tue May 27, 11:08 AM ET 

A Taiwan man grieving over the death of his girlfriend climbed inside a
morgue freezer to be with her and was only pulled out alive half an hour
later, media and an official said on Tuesday.

The 41-year-old man was discovered on Monday when workers detected an
unusually high temperature in the freezer and realized the hatch was not
securely fastened.

"A morgue manager opened the hatch, saw two people lying inside, felt scared
enough to yell out and then even cried," the Liberty Times reported. "She
didn't stabilize for a long time."

The man took a drug before entering the freezer to speed what appeared to be
suicide attempt, local papers said. They said his girlfriend died on Friday
from an overdose of sleeping pills.

The morgue would step up security to ensure that family and others who come
by to identify bodies do not stay too long, morgue administrator Chang
Lung-ching said.

(Reporting by Ralph Jennings; Editing by Nick Macfie and Alex Richardson)

 



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