This was a few years ago in Michigan:

This was last month, in Iowa:

And now here's this week, in New York:

Only three hours after she was pronounced dead, an 82-year-old woman was found to be breathing at a New York funeral home where she had been transported, police said. ...

The unnamed woman from Long Island, N.Y., was declared dead at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday at the Water's Edge Rehab and Nursing Center, according to Suffolk County police. She was transferred to OB Davis Funeral Homes in Miller Place, N.Y., at 1:30 p.m.

She was discovered breathing at 2:09 p.m., police said.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Three mistaken declarations-of-death, in three states, over three years. Is that really that big of a deal?"

I mean, I don't know. It feels like a pretty big deal to me.

If you'd asked me to guess how often this sort of thing happens nowadays, I would have pretty confidently said, "More or less never." Don't they have like machines that can detect if you're dead or not?

Isn't that a standard part of emergency medical care nowadays?