FILE - A rose is displayed on a coffin on Oct. 5, 2013. (Photo credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) An Ecuadorian woman who surprised guests at her wake by knocking on her coffin earlier this month, died on Friday after a week of intensive care.Doctors declared 76-year-old Bella Montoya, a retired nurse, dead after she suffered a possible stroke and cardiopulmonary arrest.
Ecuador’s health ministry said Montoya did not respond to resuscitation efforts.Her family had previously gathered for a wake at a funeral home on June 9, just hours after Montoya was declared dead by doctors the first time.