To Sleep Better, Partner Up!

The snoring, the sheet-stealing, the random kicks: Sleeping with a partner may sound like bad news, but the Wall Street Journal reports that it might actually be good for your health.

Writing for the Journal, Andrea Petersen notes that some recent studies’ findings “run counter” to previous ones indicating that women get better sleep when solo and both men and women move around more when slumbering as a duo.

She points to a 2009 study that followed women for six to eight years and found that those who were in a long-term relationship during that time nodded off more quickly and woke up less frequently than their always- or sometimes-single counterparts. Petersen points out that the “science is in the early stages,” but reports on potential theories behind the observations: that sleeping as a pair increases feelings of security, raises anxiety-reducing oxytocin, and reduces cytokines, which play a role in inflammation.

Says the researcher, “The psychological benefits we get having closeness at night trump the objective costs of sleeping with a partner.” And sleep-related companies are cashing in on couples dealing with those objective costs, with mattresses that stop motion from one side to the other and comforters whose two halves have different thicknesses, for instance.

‘Dead’ Brazilian Boy ‘Sits Up In Coffin At His Own Funeral And Asks For WATER!

In a case that seems almost too incredible to be true, a two-year-old boy sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again – lifeless.

Kelvin Santos, 2, stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Belem, northern Brazil.

He was pronounced dead at 7:40pm on Friday and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag.

An hour before his funeral was due to take place on Saturday, the boy apparently sat up in his coffin and said; ”Daddy, can I have some water?”

The boy’s father, Antonio Santos, said:

“Everybody started to scream, we couldn’t believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life. Then Kelvin just lay back down, the way he was. We couldn’t wake him. He was dead again.”

Santos then rushed his son back to the Aberlardo Santos hospital in Belem, where the doctors reexamined the boy and confirmed that he had no signs of life.

“’They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard.”

The boy’s family decided to delay the funeral for an hour in the hope that he would wake up again, but ended up burying him at 5pm that day in a local cemetery.

Convinced that his son was a victim of medical malpractice, Mr. Santos has now registered a complaint with the police, who have launched an investigation.

The local state department today confirmed the boy had been admitted to hospital in critical condition and was declared dead after suffering cardiac-respiratory failure.

First zombies, now people are rising from the dead. In the immortal words of Kanye West: “That sh*t cray.”