A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (2016)
Sounds like the ancients had similar thoughts as “We will not declare her dead until she is warm and dead.”:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacred-texts.com&#x2F;zor&#x2F;sbe04&#x2F;sbe0411.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacred-texts.com&#x2F;zor&#x2F;sbe04&#x2F;sbe0411.htm</a><p>From The Zend Avesta, Part I - FARGARD V.<p>10 (34). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If the summer is past and <i>the winter has come</i>, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do?<p>Ahura Mazda answered: &#x27;In every house? in every borough, they shall raise three small houses for the dead.&#x27;<p>11 (37). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large shall be those houses for the dead?<p>Ahura Mazda answered: ‘<i>Large enough not to strike the skull, or the feet, or the hands of the man, if he should stand erect, and hold out his feet, and stretch out his hands: such shall be, according to the law, the houses for the dead</i>.<p>12 (41). ‘And they shall let the lifeless body lie there, for two nights, or for three nights, or a month long, until the birds-begin to fly, the plants to grow, the floods to flow, and the wind to dry up the waters from off the earth.