The Twilight Zone  Season 3 Episode 23  The Last Rites of Jeff
Myrtlebank  Aired Unknown Feb 23, 1962 on CBS  Episode Recap
Two young boys attempt to peer into the church window at the
casket containing Jeff Myrtlebank - a local resident who died
after a brief but deadly fever. As the minister extols his
virtues, the casket lid opens and Jeff sits up alive and well.
The mourners - and the two boys - flee.  When Jeff emerges from
the church, he finds his parents, little sister, fiancee Comfort
Gatewood and her family, plus all the others standing outside.
He is told that he died two days earlier which he dismisses as
silly. Neither his parents nor Comfort will come near him until
little sister, Liz, runs to him for a hug.  The doctor suddenly
blusters that it is a rare European disease that only simulated
death and the Myrtlebanks go home.  However, Jeff has changed.
His mother frets at the number of eggs he eats, but also points
out that he works a lot harder than he used to. His father
agrees and sends his