Daily Digest Online

A 95-year-old woman in China, believed by her village to have died, was discovered calmly cooking in her kitchen six days after being placed in a coffin, in a case doctors attribute to an extremely rare condition known as "artificial death." A village in China's Guangxi province was stunned when a 95-year-old woman, believed to have passed away, was found alive in her home days after her funeral preparations had begun. Li Xiufeng was discovered unresponsive by a neighbor who brought her breakfast in February 2012, following a recent fall. Unable to wake her and detecting no breath, the neighbor presumed she had died. According to local tradition, her body was placed in a coffin inside her home for a multi-day vigil before burial. Six days later, when the neighbor returned to check on the home, he found the coffin empty. A search led to the kitchen, where Li Xiufeng was found sitting on a stool, preparing a meal. She reportedly told her shocked neig...