{"id":4643,"date":"2025-06-30T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:34:04","slug":"at-the-funeral-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=4643","title":{"rendered":"At The Funeral, Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At her husband\u2019s funeral, Nola leaned in for one final kiss \u2014 and Fred blinked. Just hours earlier, Nola had received the worst call of her life: Fred had collapsed suddenly during a weekend fishing trip with friends. By the time paramedics arrived, he was unresponsive. Declared dead. Nola was shattered. At the coroner\u2019s office, she identified his body \u2014 pale, still, unmistakably&nbsp;<em>him<\/em>. She honored his wishes: no embalming, no autopsy, cremation only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She planned the funeral in a daze, moving through the motions like someone watching their life from the outside. But at the service, something stopped her as the lid of the casket began to close. She stepped forward, needing one last moment. One last touch. One last kiss. That\u2019s when she saw it \u2014 a flicker. A twitch behind his eyelids. Then his eyes fluttered open. Chaos erupted. Guests screamed. The funeral director dropped his clipboard. Paramedics were called and rushed Fred to the hospital\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paramedics were called and rushed Fred to the hospital, where doctors discovered the truth: he had suffered a rare but severe allergic reaction to a bee sting, which sent him into an extremely deep coma \u2014 a state so still, so complete, it had fooled everyone. Everyone but Nola. Because she\u2019d refused invasive procedures and insisted on a natural farewell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fred was still alive when she kissed him \u2014 and that kiss may have saved his life. He recovered slowly, bewildered but breathing, and eternally grateful. Nola, once a widow, became the woman who kissed her husband back to life.&nbsp;<strong>Moral:<\/strong>&nbsp;Always say goodbye \u2014 you never know when it might be hello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At her husband\u2019s funeral, Nola leaned in for one final kiss \u2014 and Fred blinked. Just hours earlier, Nola had received the worst call of her life:&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}