[Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)]

I was born and spent the first nine and a half years of my life in a funeral home. I've seen my share of dead people. That's why I get frustrated when I see actors portraying dead people on screen. Only once have a seen a "dead" person on screen that looked believable and that was on an episode of the Jamie Kennedy Experience, where the actor/comedian/prankster portrayed a grieving widower who snatches his wife's body out of her casket and runs off with her on his handicapped motor cart. Why did I find it believable? Because her body was not portrayed by an actress, but a wax figure. Wax figures don't be breath and can be made to look like an actual cadaver, with loose skin and rigor mortis, et cetera.

[alancalverd]

They should spend more time in the gym to play dead! Way back in my weightlifting days I had a very slow resting pulse and hefty neck muscles. On a first aid course we were learning to find the carotid pulse. I was pronounced dead by two fellow students and the examiner said he couldn't be certain.