The term "clinical death" usually describes the moment when the two criteria necessary to sustain human life stop: the beating of the heart and breathing.

However, death is a process, and with the invention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation, epinephrine injection, and other treatments, we now have the possibility to reverse it — at least temporarily.

So let's take a look at a discussion on Reddit where people who have been clinically dead and revived describe what the state between this world and the next felt like.

My wife and I discussed this at length. 4 years ago, she died twice in 3 months, needing full resuscitation both times. Both were lengthy rescues (one resuscitation was off-and-on for nearly 40 minutes). I asked her later when she had recovered if she re

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