*- France changes rules to allow kitchen toilets -* PARIS (UPI) - French officials announced a law change that will allow homeowners to install toilets in their kitchens and living rooms. Minister of Housing Sylvia Pinel and Minister of Ecology Segolene Royal announced in the French governments Official Journal Nov. 8 they are doing away with a law requiring toilets to be kept separate from kitchens and living rooms. The ministers wrote they were doing away with the prohibition of direct communication between the [bathrooms] and kitchens and living rooms as part of a process of simplification of regulations. The decree goes into effect Dec. 1. *-- 91-year-old alive in morgue 11 hours after death --* LUBARTOW, Poland (UPI) - A 91-year-old Polish woman who was declared dead was found to be alive inside her body bag in a morgues cold storage area 11 hours later. Janina Kolkiewiczs niece, Bogumila Kolkiewicz, said she called her familys physician, Dr. Wieslawa Czyz, when she found her aunt was not breathing and did not seem to have a pulse at their Lubartow home. Czyz confirmed the elder Kolkiewicz was deceased and wrote out a death certificate for the woman. However, the death certificate had to be invalidated when morgue staff found Kolkiewicz moving inside of her body bag. Kolkiewicz returned home, where her family helped her warm up with soup and pancakes, her niece said. I was sure she was dead, Czyz told television station TVP. Im stunned, I dont understand what happened. Her heart had stopped beating, she was no longer breathing. Bogumila Kolkiewicz said her aunt reported feeling normal, fine following her ordeal. She said the older woman has no comprehension of what took place. My aunt has no inkling of what happened since she has late-stage dementia, she told the Dziennik Wschodni newspaper. Police are investigating the incident and the Lublin District Prosecutors Office said it has instituted criminal proceedings against the doctor.
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