--- ---  # Guy Everyone Thought Was Dead Now Dead  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Mar 13, 2014 8:10 PM UTC  Walter Williams in the hospital in early March. Walter Williams in the hospital in early March.Courtesy of Eddie Hester  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Mar 13, 2014 8:10 PM UTC The 78-year-old man who [woke up in a body bag](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2-weeks-after-waking-body-bag-miss-man-dies) at a funeral home has now died, the Associated Press reports. Walter Williams was accidentally pronounced dead two weeks ago. A Mississippi funeral home was preparing to embalm him when he began to move. He had been hospitalized in February because of congestive heart failure. A coroner pronounced Williams dead when he and several nurses could not find a pulse. Williams’ family now believes his pacemaker may have stopped working for a period of time. Williams died around 1 a.m. on Thursday. \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2-weeks-after-waking-body-bag-miss-man-dies)\] Mississippi Man Who Woke Up in Body Bag Now Dead ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/23974/walter-williams-dies-mississippi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/23974/walter-williams-dies-mississippi/"},"headline":"Guy Everyone Thought Was Dead Now Dead","datePublished":"2014-03-13T20:10:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:47.906Z","description":"Man who woke up in a body bag dies two weeks later","url":"https://time.com/23974/walter-williams-dies-mississippi/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295bce5a63e66faa/6986836eadae44bfee541c0d/2014-02-28-12-14-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295bce5a63e66faa/6986836eadae44bfee541c0d/2014-02-28-12-14-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Walter Williams in the hospital.","caption":"Walter Williams in the hospital.","creditText":"Courtesy of Eddie Hester","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/23974/walter-williams-dies-mississippi/","name":"Guy Everyone Thought Was Dead Now Dead"}}]}] ```