The 20-year-old who starred in an unusual situation when the staff of the funeral home where she was being veiled in Michigan discovered that she was alive has died months later, said the lawyer representing her family.
Timesha Beauchamp died Sunday at Detroit Children's Hospital where she has been hospitalized in critical condition since August, when Cole Funeral Home employees saw her chest move, Geoffrey Fieger said in a news release.
"She died as a result of massive brain damage she suffered when Southfield paramedics wrongly declared her dead and did not provide her with the oxygen she needed," the attorney explained, "She was sent to a funeral home who later discovered that her eyes were open and that she was alive".
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Beauchamp's family, which has filed a $ 50 million lawsuit against the city and the four paramedics who treated her, said in a statement that they are "devastated" by his death.
"This is the second time our beloved Timesha has been declared dead, but this time she will not return," the family said.
Southfield Fire Chief Johnny Menifee said the city is investigating the case.
In late August, Menifee explained that Beauchamp could have been found alive due to Lazarus syndrome, when people come back to life unaided after resuscitation attempts failed.
On August 23, paramedics reported to a home in Southfield, Michigan, to treat Beauchamp, who was unconscious and not breathing due to a heart condition.
After trying to resuscitate her for more than 30 minutes, they determined that "she had no signs of life," according to the statement issued at the time by the Fire Department.
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The young woman was pronounced dead by phone by an emergency room doctor at a nearby hospital, Bill Mullan, a spokesman for the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office, explained in August.
The Southfield Fire Department contacted the medical examiner's office, which determined that based on the emergency room doctor and the patient's history, there was no need for an additional forensic examination, Mullan said.
It wasn't until the funeral home that staff realized the woman was still breathing.
When the police arrived after having noticed movements in the woman's body, they called again the paramedics who said that it was all the result of the side effects of the medications they had administered when they tried to revive her, but that she had already died, according to WDIV- NBC affiliate TV.
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However, she was alive and was admitted to the hospital in critical condition where she remained for almost two months until her death on Monday.
With information from NBC News