UPDATE: When does life begin.

When I posted the article When does life begin, I included in it this story:

Preemie spontaneously breathes hours after pronounced dead

Medical staff at Nahariya hospital stunned by premature baby showing vital signs five hours after being pronounced dead, kept in hospital cryolab. Case dubbed medical miracle, Health Ministry to launch probe.

A medical miracle or gross negligence? A premature baby girl, born as a result of induced labor, was pronounced dead Monday at the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, only to be discovered, by chance, as has having viable vital signs five hours later.

According to the information available about the case, the baby's mother, five months pregnant at the time, checked into the hospital several days ago, for a series of prenatal tests.

The tests indicated she was experiencing some intrauterine bleeding and that her fetus had no pulse. Her doctors then scheduled a second-trimester termination procedure, which was carried out on Monday morning.

Ynet has learned that once the procedure was completed, the medical staff followed protocol and verified that the preemie was not breathing, subsequently pronouncing her dead.

The body was then transferred to the hospital cryogenic laboratory (cryolab), before being sent on to the pathology lab for a battery of routine postmortem tests, meant to give the doctors and her parents more answers as to the cause of her death.

The preemie spent five hours inside the cryolab's cooler when her father, accompanied by the medical staff, asked to see the body.

Upon opening the cooler, the baby began showing signs of spontaneous breathing. She was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit and placed in an incubator and on a respirator, to assist her breathing.

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It is with a heavy heart that I now have to announce that this child, this gift from G-d, has not survived.

'Miracle preemie' dies

Baby who stunned hospital staff by breathing after believed stillborn dies after short, fierce fight for life. 'We did everything we could but such premature babies have very little chance of surviving,' says hospital administrator.

The "miracle baby" who was born in the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, only to be mistaken for dead and stun the medical staff by spontaneously breathing hours later, was able to hang on to life for less than 24 hours.

Sadly, the daughter of Ali and Phaiza Mardov, from the village of Kfar Yassif, was pronounced dead at 5:15 am Tuesday, in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.

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Although the parents of the child didn't expect for a miracle to occur, it did. The doctors did all they could to save this precious gift from G-d, but in the end it was of no avail. G-d in his wisdom decided that this little girl was not ready for this world and brought her back into his light.

My prayers go with Ali and Phaiza Mardov in this time of sorrow for them. May they find the strength to continue with life after such a devastating loss.