Man 'returns from the dead' in marriage proposal

This man wanted to see if his girlfriend really did love him to death, so he faked the moment he "died" in a horrific car crash – and then got up to pop the question.
Oddball Alexey Bykov hired a movie director, stuntmen, make-up artists, and even a script writer to stage the bogus motor smash.
The 30-year-old then planned for girlfriend Irena Kolokov to meet him at the crash site so she would be convinced he was dead.

Irena said: “We’d arranged to meet at a certain place but when I arrived there were mangled cars everywhere, ambulances, smoke, and carnage.

“Then when I saw Alexey covered in blood lying in the road, a paramedic told me he was dead and I just broke down in tears.”
But then “dead” Alexey climbed to his feet and proposed to Irena – still covered in fake blood.
Irena said: “I was so cross I almost killed him again, but for real this time.”
Luckily for Alexey, she saw the joke, said yes – and the couple were married  in September.
Alexey, from Omsk, Russia, said: “I wanted her to realise how empty her life would be without me and how life would have no meaning without me.
“I think it worked – but I promise it’s the last time.”