Man who died for seven minutes reveals his encounter with the afterlife
<p>A British actor has shared what happened during his brief, yet profound experience in the afterlife, after he was pronounced dead for seven minutes. </p>
<p>Shiv Grewal, 60, was having lunch with his wife when he suddenly went into cardiac arrest. </p>
<p>His wife frantically called an ambulance, but Shiv's heart had already stopped beating. </p>
<p>“I knew, somehow, that I was dead,” Grewal said, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/24/i-died-for-7-minutes-before-being-brought-back-to-life-heres-what-i-saw/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_content=curalate_like2buy_7Rd1H9jc__bf5c46e3-ff70-4690-9b19-4f40d83c952f&utm_term=curalate_like2buy&crl8_id=bf5c46e3-ff70-4690-9b19-4f40d83c952f" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link-type="article-inline"><em>The New York Post</em>.</a></p>
<p>“I felt things completely separate from my body. It was like I was in a void but I could feel emotions and sensations.”</p>
<p>Shiv went on to say the experience felt similar to "swimming through water" with a sense of weightlessness and disconnection from the physical world.</p>
<p>“At one point, I was travelling over the moon, and I could see meteorites and all of space,” he said.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>“There was a whole set of possibilities, various lives and reincarnations that were being offered to me,” he said.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>Grewal was rushed to hospital were he underwent a surgery to have a stent put into his main artery, which had clogged. </p>
<p>He was then put in an induced coma for a month. </p>
<p>While the traumatic experience happened almost ten years ago, Shiv explained that he hasn't fully recovered from the emotional impact. </p>
<p>He said his life has been completely transformed, and is still trying to work through the profound emotions of that day. </p>
<p>“I remembered everything that happened when my heart stopped and have tried to translate it into art,” he said.</p>
<p>Before the accident, Grewal was more cynical about the idea of an afterlife, but now has completely changed his mind. </p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>“I’m grateful just to be here.”</p>
<p><em>Image credits: Instagram</em></p>
