Man who died for seven minutes reveals his encounter with the afterlife
A British actor has shared what happened during his brief, yet profound experience in the afterlife, after he was pronounced dead for seven minutes.
Shiv Grewal, 60, was having lunch with his wife when he suddenly went into cardiac arrest.
His wife frantically called an ambulance, but Shiv's heart had already stopped beating.
“I knew, somehow, that I was dead,” Grewal said, according to The New York Post.
“I felt things completely separate from my body. It was like I was in a void but I could feel emotions and sensations.”
Shiv went on to say the experience felt similar to "swimming through water" with a sense of weightlessness and disconnection from the physical world.
“At one point, I was travelling over the moon, and I could see meteorites and all of space,” he said.
Grewal remembers feeling like he definitely didn't want to die and would do whatever it took to return to his physical body, despite the endless possibilities of the afterlife.
“There was a whole set of possibilities, various lives and reincarnations that were being offered to me,” he said.
“I didn’t want them. I made it very clear that I wanted to return to my body, to my time, to my wife and to go on living.”
Grewal was rushed to hospital were he underwent a surgery to have a stent put into his main artery, which had clogged.
He was then put in an induced coma for a month.
While the traumatic experience happened almost ten years ago, Shiv explained that he hasn't fully recovered from the emotional impact.
He said his life has been completely transformed, and is still trying to work through the profound emotions of that day.
“I remembered everything that happened when my heart stopped and have tried to translate it into art,” he said.
Before the accident, Grewal was more cynical about the idea of an afterlife, but now has completely changed his mind.
“I’m less fearful of death because of it, but at the same time, I’m also more fearful, because I’ve realised how precious everything I have in life is,” he said.
“I’m grateful just to be here.”
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