Heartbroken Taiwan Man Climbs Into Morgue Freezer

A Taiwan man grieving over the death of his girlfriend climbed inside a morgue freezer to be with her and was only pulled out alive half an hour later.

The 41-year-old man was discovered on Monday when workers detected an unusually high temperature in the freezer and realised the hatch was not securely fastened.

"A morgue manager opened the hatch, saw two people lying inside, she felt scared enough to yell out and then even cried," local newspaper 'Liberty Times' reported. "She didn't stabilise for a long time."

The man apparently took a drug before entering the freezer to speed up what was likely a suicide attempt. His girlfriend died from an overdose of sleeping pills on Friday.

The morgue now says it plans to step up security to ensure that family and others who come by to identify bodies do not stay for too long.

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