Good question. In a young, healthy person who has suffered an electrical shock or lightning strike injury, resuscitation efforts should continue longer than 40 minutes and include plenty of attempts to defibrillate. People have been revived without permanent damage 2 or 3 hours after such an injury, if they received proper care.
-ccm
De-fibrillation killed him. A church that size probably already has an AED and I doubt it took EMS 40 minutes to get there. They probably worked with him that long . He had Drs there. They could do anything an ER could at that point, most likely. He was probably flat lined.