A woman in Brazil was decorating what she thought was her dead husband's coffin when she saw it wasn't him inside.

　　After seeing the body, she phoned the hospitalswheresshe thought he'd died to be told he was still there and alive. The hospital had mixed him up with another patient with a similar name who had died.

　　Maria Ilda Oliveira, 52, from Jundiai, Sao Paulo says she plans to sue the Sao Vicente de Paulo hospital, the Estado de SP newspaper reports.

　　The dead man was called Jose Francisco Hilario. Her husband's name is Jose Hilario de Oliveira. A hospital spokesman said: "This was human error - the names were so similar. We're investigating the case to find out who's responsible." Reports don't say what her husband is suffering from.