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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Thrill Gets The Call At Work

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Hear Thrill's answer on our Mens Room Question: What's the craziest phone call you've made or taken?

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0:00.0

Here's a weird one. A sister got a surreal call from her dead brother a week after he is

0:05.4

hospital asked her to take him off life support. This is all part of a tragic mix-up. Debbie

0:11.2

Danielson, she's from Vancouver, I received the heartbreaking phone call during the middle of the

0:15.4

night. And medics told her that Mike, 60 years old, was brain dead following a horrific choking accident.

0:23.8

They then got her permission to pull the plug on the system that was keeping him alive.

0:28.6

Maybe that's why he was calling.

0:30.3

I heard what you did.

0:31.6

Yeah.

0:31.9

So his death later announced in the newspaper with the solemn statement that read, Beeler 60 of Vancouver died August the 9th

0:39.1

2021. However, roughly a week later, she received a bizarre call from her brother where he told her

0:47.0

he was still alive. Debbie remember replying, you can't be alive. You're dead. The family

0:53.7

investigation later revealed that a horrifying

0:55.6

mix-up with patients meant Debbie, she basically permitted medics to in-the-life support for another

1:01.8

man. Yep. I mean, they pulled a plug on someone, just not her brother. We made a life-ending

1:07.0

decision for a person we did not know. They said the case of mistaken identity had begun

1:12.2

when his roommate David had choked on a piece of steak while eating dinner. At his home,

1:17.3

he then phoned 911, emergency teams responded, where they found a man not breathing and unconscious.

1:24.6

He was then transported to a hospital where medics treated him later and allegedly

1:28.7

began using the wrong name for him. And he remembered this. So they checked my ID. That was about it.

1:36.5

We ran around like chickens with our heads got off. It's a pretty messed up situation. Somebody

1:41.0

messed up. So later when the family allegedly asked to double check the body and to identify at the funeral, they were told it wasn't necessary.

1:49.2

Mike's brother-in-law, Gary, said, uh, we went to the funeral director. I was like, do we need to identify him?

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