Woman Who Died for 24 Minutes Shares What It Felt Like — And What She Misses Most
🫀 What Happened: A Sudden Cardiac Arrest
“I went into sudden cardiac arrest at home this past February,” Lauren wrote.
“My husband called 911 and started CPR. It took 24 minutes for EMTs to resuscitate me.”
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is not a heart attack.
It’s when the heart’s electrical system fails, causing it to stop beating abruptly.
Without immediate CPR and defibrillation, death occurs within minutes.
Lauren was lucky.
Her husband knew what to do.
The EMTs arrived in time.
But she wasn’t out of the woods.
She spent 9 days in the ICU, intubated, in a medically induced coma.
She suffered 30 minutes of status epilepticus — a dangerous, prolonged seizure.
Doctors feared brain damage.
But when she woke up?
“I was declared ‘cognitively intact.’ No brain damage on MRI. Normal EEG.”
She had survived — not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
And then came the question everyone wanted to know:
🌠 “Did You See Anything? What Was It Like?”
One Redditor asked:
“Do you remember anything from when you were ‘dead’?”
Her answer stunned many:
“I never regained memory of the week prior or most of the time in ICU… I’m foggy on about a month prior.”
“But I remember only a feeling of extreme peace that I honestly seriously miss!”
She didn’t describe tunnels of light or angels.
No life flashing before her eyes.
No divine figures.
Just peace.
