Yrs: "Why in the heck did amateurs try to revive him for 40 (forty!) minutes/"
There were about 700 people at the service, among the congregation were several physicians ( M.D.s).
"Several physicians" in the congregation don't carry all the equipment a paramedic would have. Last time I went to church, I did not see the local church-going physicians toting in automated external defibrillators into church.
Did these people really not call 911?