Colleen S. Burns
Obituary
Colleen S. Burns January 22, 2011 Colleen Shannon Burns, 41, of N. Syracuse, died Saturday. Colleen was a loving mother, daughter, sister and aunt. Surviving are three daughters, Destinee, Marrissa and Breanna Burns; her father, Robert (Shawn) Burns; her mother, Lucille Kuss; a brother, Robert J., II (Christen) Burns; a sister, Tricia (George) Mattison; several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. Services will be 6 p.m. Friday at New Comer Funeral Home, N. Syracuse. Burial will be private. Calling hours will be Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home, 705 N. Main St. To leave a special message for the family please visit NewcomerSyracuse.com NewComer Funeral Home
A ‘dead’ woman awoke on an operating table in America just as her organs were about to be harvested for donation.
Colleen Burns had been pronounced clinically dead by medical staff following an overdose of Xanax and Benadryl, The Post Standard newspaper reported, and after arriving at the St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Centre in Syracuse was declared a victim of “cardiac death”. Doctors had notified her family and they agreed to switch off her life support machine and donate her organs.
The 41-year-old had in-fact slipped into a deep coma as a result of her drug overdose and her condition had been mis-diagnosed as irreversible brain damage.
When Ms Burns was wheeled into surgery where her organs would be removed for transplants, her eyes opened in response to the bright lights in the operating theatre, causing doctors to immediately call off the procedure. The mother-of-three was discharged from hospital two weeks later.
16 months after being wrongly pronounced dead, Colleen committed suicide.
Obituary
Colleen S. Burns January 22, 2011 Colleen Shannon Burns, 41, of N. Syracuse, died Saturday. Colleen was a loving mother, daughter, sister and aunt. Surviving are three daughters, Destinee, Marrissa and Breanna Burns; her father, Robert (Shawn) Burns; her mother, Lucille Kuss; a brother, Robert J., II (Christen) Burns; a sister, Tricia (George) Mattison; several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. Services will be 6 p.m. Friday at New Comer Funeral Home, N. Syracuse. Burial will be private. Calling hours will be Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home, 705 N. Main St. To leave a special message for the family please visit NewcomerSyracuse.com NewComer Funeral Home
A ‘dead’ woman awoke on an operating table in America just as her organs were about to be harvested for donation.
Colleen Burns had been pronounced clinically dead by medical staff following an overdose of Xanax and Benadryl, The Post Standard newspaper reported, and after arriving at the St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Centre in Syracuse was declared a victim of “cardiac death”. Doctors had notified her family and they agreed to switch off her life support machine and donate her organs.
The 41-year-old had in-fact slipped into a deep coma as a result of her drug overdose and her condition had been mis-diagnosed as irreversible brain damage.
When Ms Burns was wheeled into surgery where her organs would be removed for transplants, her eyes opened in response to the bright lights in the operating theatre, causing doctors to immediately call off the procedure. The mother-of-three was discharged from hospital two weeks later.
16 months after being wrongly pronounced dead, Colleen committed suicide.
Colleen S. Burns
Obituary
Colleen S. Burns January 22, 2011 Colleen Shannon Burns, 41, of N. Syracuse, died Saturday. Colleen was a loving mother, daughter, sister and aunt. Surviving are three daughters, Destinee, Marrissa and Breanna Burns; her father, Robert (Shawn) Burns; her mother, Lucille Kuss; a brother, Robert J., II (Christen) Burns; a sister, Tricia (George) Mattison; several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. Services will be 6 p.m. Friday at New Comer Funeral Home, N. Syracuse. Burial will be private. Calling hours will be Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home, 705 N. Main St. To leave a special message for the family please visit NewcomerSyracuse.com NewComer Funeral Home
A ‘dead’ woman awoke on an operating table in America just as her organs were about to be harvested for donation.
Colleen Burns had been pronounced clinically dead by medical staff following an overdose of Xanax and Benadryl, The Post Standard newspaper reported, and after arriving at the St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Centre in Syracuse was declared a victim of “cardiac death”. Doctors had notified her family and they agreed to switch off her life support machine and donate her organs.
The 41-year-old had in-fact slipped into a deep coma as a result of her drug overdose and her condition had been mis-diagnosed as irreversible brain damage.
When Ms Burns was wheeled into surgery where her organs would be removed for transplants, her eyes opened in response to the bright lights in the operating theatre, causing doctors to immediately call off the procedure. The mother-of-three was discharged from hospital two weeks later.
16 months after being wrongly pronounced dead, Colleen committed suicide.
Obituary
Colleen S. Burns January 22, 2011 Colleen Shannon Burns, 41, of N. Syracuse, died Saturday. Colleen was a loving mother, daughter, sister and aunt. Surviving are three daughters, Destinee, Marrissa and Breanna Burns; her father, Robert (Shawn) Burns; her mother, Lucille Kuss; a brother, Robert J., II (Christen) Burns; a sister, Tricia (George) Mattison; several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. Services will be 6 p.m. Friday at New Comer Funeral Home, N. Syracuse. Burial will be private. Calling hours will be Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home, 705 N. Main St. To leave a special message for the family please visit NewcomerSyracuse.com NewComer Funeral Home
A ‘dead’ woman awoke on an operating table in America just as her organs were about to be harvested for donation.
Colleen Burns had been pronounced clinically dead by medical staff following an overdose of Xanax and Benadryl, The Post Standard newspaper reported, and after arriving at the St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Centre in Syracuse was declared a victim of “cardiac death”. Doctors had notified her family and they agreed to switch off her life support machine and donate her organs.
The 41-year-old had in-fact slipped into a deep coma as a result of her drug overdose and her condition had been mis-diagnosed as irreversible brain damage.
When Ms Burns was wheeled into surgery where her organs would be removed for transplants, her eyes opened in response to the bright lights in the operating theatre, causing doctors to immediately call off the procedure. The mother-of-three was discharged from hospital two weeks later.
16 months after being wrongly pronounced dead, Colleen committed suicide.
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