Salem the Dead

My father's cousin is Salem the Dead.
Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya,
he was brought lifeless from the womb,
yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.

Now, I cannot claim to know him,
his name is only a myth to me.
Still, you'd imagine, having died once,
the burden of your end would be lifted.

But if that moniker born of a morgue
did not bestow a carefree manner,
or life beyond his natural years,
he'll survive in tales, like this one.