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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Man who claims he died for 45 minutes reveals he 'watched his death like a movie'
A Utah man was pronounced dead for nearly an hour, during which time he entered a supernatural realm where he watched his own death. The former bodybuilder had started a new supplement regimen, though he did not say what he was taking specifically. The substance turned out to be toxic. He was in a restaurant when his world changed forever. While in the restroom, he got sick and vomited. He passed out and fell unconscious, inhaling his own vomit. 'They think I was dead for at least 30 to 45 minutes before they found me,' he said. 'But I was cold, like, cold to the touch.' As paramedics worked to revive him, the man had an out-of-body experience, finding himself in a beautiful theater in front of a large screen. There, he could see his own death from above. Only, it wasn't him but instead a stranger in his clothes. 'It would almost be like going to a movie, like a real movie, and seeing someone dressed like you and looking like you in the movie, but you're like, 'That's not me because I'm over here watching the movie,'' he said. A divine voice apparently inspired a paramedic to open up the body bag and continue working to successfully revive the man. An estimated five to 10 percent of Americans have near-death experiences at one point in their lives. The man described watching his demise from above at first, the camera zooming out from a prone body. But it wasn't him. He said: 'What's weird is it didn't feel like it was me at all. Even though I was sitting there looking at my own dead body, I couldn't recognize it. 'I had no idea I was watching was my own death.' He described hearing the thoughts of the restaurant staff, from diners and hostesses to cooks, 'which was so odd to me.' 'My background actually was TV and film, and so as I was watching this I though that was such an odd choice for the director to think that he needed to overplay all these thoughts of everyone in the room. 'And I kept thinking, this is a weird movie.' He watched restaurant workers and paramedics discover the body and bag it. As they pulled away from the scene in an ambulance, he could hear the voice of a rookie medic nearby berating himself for not trying harder or enlisting help from veteran medics. 'And as he was doing that, I actually saw light, a real light, start glowing from inside this rookie medic. And it felt as if someone put a light bulb inside his shirt and light was coming out of his heart space,' the man said. 'And out of nowhere, this really strong voice says 'This one's not dead.'' The man heard the medic's inner monologue telling him the voice was just his imagination and shrugged it off. But then the voice boomed the statement again. The light got brighter and brighter, engulfing his entire upper body in a glow. The medic heard the voice, the man said, because he jumped up, unzipped the body bag, and resumed attempting to revive the man – breaking protocol. The medic scrambled to find a pulse but couldn't. Yet he felt on the inside of his leg near his femur a spark, 'and that was enough for him.' The man did not realize he was witnessing his own death until paramedics lifted his body from the ambulance to the hospital. As doctors strapped is convulsing body to the gurney, the man felt the straps trap him to his movie theater seat. 'How come I can't move my arms?' he asked himself. 'And that's when I realized that what I've been watching was me.' The man was revived and left to reckon with his glimpse into the afterlife. Most people with NDEs describe them as taking different forms. These often include an out-of-body sensation, where they observe their physical form from an external vantage point. Many describe traversing a tunnel toward a radiant light, encountering departed loved ones or benevolent beings, and gaining profound, expansive awareness. Some undergo a vivid life review, in which they not only revisit past actions but also empathetically perceive the emotional impact – both positive and negative – their choices had on others. Doctors began collecting accounts of near-death experiences in the 1970s after Raymond A Moody's book Life After Life debuted. Based on interviews with over 150 people who clinically died and were revived, Moody identified recurring patterns in their accounts, coining the term "near-death experience" itself. Dr Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and researcher based in Kentucky, has emerged as one of the most rigorous investigators of near-death experiences (NDEs). Unlike Moody's approach, which was based on personal stories, Dr Long takes a more scientific approach, amassing over 5,000 verified accounts across more than 30 languages and diverse cultures through his Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF). He has concluded that around 45 percent of NDEs involve a sense of leaving one's body, while more than half report seeing a heavenly realm.
Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jeremy Renner makes astonishing claim about what happened when he 'died' after snowcat accident
Jeremy Renner dropped a bombshell revelation, admitting he was momentarily 'pissed' about being revived following his near-fatal snowplow accident—after getting a glimpse of what he described as the peaceful serenity of the afterlife. The Marvel star, 54, opened up about the harrowing incident, which took place on New Year's Day 2023 when he was run over by a 14,000-pound snowcat outside his Lake Tahoe home while heroically trying to save his nephew. In his recently published memoir My Next Breath, Renner describes the 'electric serenity' he felt during the brief moments he was clinically dead. The experience, he writes, left him unafraid of death and filled with an overwhelming sense of peace. Now, in a recent appearance on Kelly Ripa 's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast, Renner candidly admitted that his first reaction to being brought back to life was disappointment. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'It's a great relief is all I can say,' Renner said of the feeling that came with his near-death experience. 'It's a wonderful, wonderful relief to be removed from your body. It is the most exhilarating peace you could ever feel. It's the highest adrenaline rush, but the peace that comes with it, it's magnificent. It's so magical.' That sense of peace, he revealed, was so powerful that returning to life felt like a letdown. 'And I didn't want to come back,' he said. 'I remember, and I was brought back and I was so pissed off. I came back, I'm like, "Aww!"' Renner admitted he was only 'gone' for a few minutes after his New Year's Day 2023 snowcat accident—but the glimpse of the afterlife was enough to change his entire outlook on life. He said time didn't exist in that space, describing the afterlife as a place of pure knowing, free from human limitations like language or linear thought. 'That's a human experience,' he told Kelly. 'Time is a human construct… This is so remedial—language, all these things. It's all knowing, all experiencing, all at the same time, all at once.' Renner now sees the accident as a wake-up call that cleared the noise and helped him identify what truly matters. 'It makes me—a man that didn't want to come back—really be able to be back here and live it on my terms as the captain of my own ship,' he said. 'And get on it or off it, I don't give a f---.' The brush with death also forced him to reevaluate where he places value. 'I gave so much value to things that have zero value,' he said. 'So I invest into no stocks or bonds. I invest not into crypto or Bitcoin. I invest into love and my shared relationships that I experience love with. 'Cause that is the only thing that you take with you.' The podcast comes after Renner opened up about the 'tiny but monumental' mistake he made that caused the horror snowplow accident which almost killed him in his new memoir. 'I didn't engage the parking brake or disengage the steel tracks,' Renner wrote. 'In that moment — an innocent, critical, life-changing moment — that tiny but monumental slip of the mind would change the course of my life for ever.' Renner was in the driver's cab of his huge 14,000-pound snowcat when it occurred to him that his nephew was in harm's way. He jumped out in an effort to save his life. 'My feet lost their grip on the moving tracks, and I never made it to the cab. I lurched violently forward, out of control,' he wrote. 'In that split second I was catapulted off the spinning metal tracks, arms flailing. I arced over the front of the tracks, propelled forward, down on to the hard-packed ice, where my head hit the ground hard and instantly gashed open. 'There came terrible crunching sounds as 14,000lb of galvanised steel machinery slowly, inexorably, monotonously, ground over my body. It was a horrifying soundtrack.' Renner suffered 38 broken bones in the ordeal, as well as a collapsed lung and his liver was pierced by one of his broken ribs. His nephew was able to render aid until emergency responders arrived to the scene. Renner was airlifted to hospital, where he was kept for more than two weeks and underwent multiple surgeries. Despite all odds, Renner has returned to work on set, recently filming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery - the third instalment of the Knives Out series.
Daily Mail
07-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
I died for a split second then came back to life - the image I saw continues to haunt me
A woman who momentarily 'died' twice has detailed the haunting scenes she claims she saw in heaven. Lisa Small, from Belleview, Florida, was just 24 when in 2008, she suddenly collapsed and had to be resuscitated. The now 41-year-old was suffering a drug and alcohol addiction that saw her spend at least $150 a day on the substances when during one cocaine binge she said she stopped breathing but her eyes remained open. Her then-boyfriend was forced to perform CPR for around 40 seconds, before she regained consciousness. It was only after she collapsed a second time later that night and stopped breathing again that she sought medical attention. Here, she said doctors explained that she had gone into respiratory arrest — a serious medical emergency where breathing stops, but the heart continues to beat. Research suggests just one in six patients survive the medical emergency after five years. Yet, Ms Small, who works as a waitress, claimed to have miraculously avoided any long-term damage, and said she was one of the handful of people to have survived a near-death experience, 'like a phoenix out of the ashes'. These phenomena, which have been a source of fascination for medics and the public alike for decades, are believed to occur when people are clinically 'dead', and extremely unlikely to survive. Many of those who've had such an experience claim to have seen the afterlife. Recalling her experience, Ms Small said: 'I literally stopped breathing. I collapsed. I stopped breathing. 'All of a sudden I was in this big, huge open field, and there was a tree next to me, and then there was a guy in a white cloth. 'Way off miles and miles away, there was a sea of people. I couldn't physically see anybody, but I felt like I knew them. 'This feeling of just wonderfulness. I can't even explain it. It was like euphoria times a million.' During her second collapse, 'I went to the exact same spot, exact same tree, person, people in the distance, exact same feeling', she added. 'My boyfriend told me "your eyes were open the entire time"—so clearly I wasn't dreaming.' A respiratory arrest is a life-threatening emergency. Without immediate medical attention it can trigger brain damage or a cardiac arrest. A cardiac arrest happens when the heart suddenly stops beating or beats irregularly, disrupting blood flow to vital organs. One study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal involving 517 patients who had suffered a respiratory arrest found 59.6 per cent were able to be resuscitated in hospital. Just over a quarter (26.9 per cent) were discharged from hospital with 24.3 per cent surviving a year. Just 15.9 per cent, however, survived to five years. Ms Small said: 'I'm very grateful I'm one of the blessed ones that made it out. Where I was headed was total destruction. I feel like a phoenix out of the ashes.' Despite her near death experience, it wasn't until 2018 that she became sober having battled homelessness as well as multiple arrests. She estimated she spent around $40,000 in total during the 15 years she was gripped by her addiction to cocaine, heroin, crack, alcohol and the synthetic drug 'flakka.' She said: 'Addiction is basically a pit of despair, like a demon that has a hold of you. You have to be stronger than that.' Now, she credits the church and faith for her recovery. 'In July, I'll have lived in this house for six years now. I always have animals find me. I've had my three cats for eight years now.' But her most significant is the reconnection with her 20-year-old son, Ayden, a restaurant host where Lisa works—who grew up with his father. 'My son lives with me now,' she said. 'When he moved in on Christmas Eve of this past year, it's the first time he's ever lived with me and the longest amount of time that we've ever spent together. 'Being sober, my life has literally done a full 360, not even just a 180. Everything is different. Everything.' Experiences of seeing and hearing things while clinically dead do have some scientific basis. For years studies have shown the human brain still functions normally for a very brief time after the heart stops, although it appears to have ceased activity on regular scans. Research has also revealed that the brain can still experience sporadic bursts of activity even after an hour without oxygen, during resuscitation. Such discoveries have led to some medics calling for an overhaul of the standard practice that rules people should be declared dead after three-to-five minutes of oxygen deprivation to the brain, as these patients could still in theory be resuscitated. While evidence on something happening in brains after clinical death is still being explored, exactly why people have similar experiences remains an issue of contention among experts. Some theorise that as the brain is undergoing these changes essentially the 'brakes' come off the system and this opens our perception to incredibly lucid and vivid experiences of stored memories from our lives. However, this is only a theory and other experts dispute this. Clinical death also differs from brain death. Brain death is when a person on an artificial life support machine no longer has any brain function, which means they will not regain consciousness. Such patients have no chance of recovery because their body is unable to survive without artificial life support. In the UK this means a person who has suffered brain death is legally dead. This can be difficult to comprehend for families of the deceased as they can see their loved one's chest rise and fall with every breath from the ventilator as well as their heart continuing to beat. Brain death can be caused by both illness and injury when blood and/or oxygen supplies are cut off to the vital organ. The condition is different from a vegetative state where a patient's brain function remains.
