A young American woman wakes up inside a "body bag" at the funeral home

A young American woman found herself in a "body bag" at the funeral home in Detroit, USA, where she had been declared dead last Sunday.

According to the family's lawyer, it was discovered that 20-year-old Timsha Beauchamp was alive shortly before she was embalmed.

Lawyer Jeffrey Figer said that the young woman’s death was announced in her home in a suburb of Detroit, but she opened her eyes in a funeral home where she was about to enter the mummification process.

"They were going to start removing fluids and blood from her body," added Figer, in a statement to WXYZ TV, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.

The newspaper added that the Southfield fire department admitted that it was "involved in a strange set of events on Sunday ... that began when a medical staff was called to a house where a twenty-year-old woman was reported unresponsive."

The administration said that the paramedics tried to resuscitate her for 30 minutes, but she did not respond to all attempts at resuscitation, and then they consulted the doctor in the emergency department.

The fire department added that the doctor "announced the patient's death based on the available medical information" from the scene.

According to the administration, the Oakland County Medical Examination Office said, for its part, that the body could be delivered to the family without an autopsy.

But then came the startling and terrifying discovery at the "James H. Cole" funeral home in Detroit: "The woman was still alive after more than an hour .. Our staff confirmed that she was breathing." They rushed to call the emergency crew.

"They were about to mummify her ... which is the most terrifying thing, if her eyes did not open," said attorney Figger.

Detroit Medical Center spokesman Brian Taylor said Beauchamp was in critical condition Monday night.

As for her mother, Erica Latimore, she told WDIV: "Someone announced the death of my child, even though she was not dead."

The Southfield County Fire Department opened an investigation, but insisted that the fire departments and police followed due diligence when Timcha's death was announced.