Sounds fishy. They don’t stop your circulation for 21 minutes during heart surgery. They might put you on a heart-lung machine while they are tinkering with your ticker, but then you wouldn’t be any more dead than the rest of us. If his circulation really was stopped for 21 minutes, he’d probably have been permanently brain-damaged.
Then, of course, they are cashing in with a book about the “experience”. Color me unconvinced.
I am not going to opine on what this guy did or did not see. I just want to comment on you post re: stopping circulation & a bypass machine.
There are a few cardiac procedures that require complete cirulatory arrest. Meaning, the bypass machine is turned off & the hear is stopped and drained of blood. I have provided anesthesia for these cases numerous times. We do everything to prevent brain dmamage. The body temperature is often lowered to about 17 degress Celsius, the head packed in ice, and high-dose benozdiazepines given. It’s a technique called “deep hypothermic ciruclatory arrest”. It is quite possible that this gentleman underwent such a procedure.
Do I believe in purgatory? Absolutely. Do I think this guy saw it? Who knows?
**When Bob “returned” to the hospital, he said he saw a type of purgatory with hundreds of souls all around him. Purgatory is believed to be a place or state after death in which penitent souls are purified and thereby made ready for heaven.
“There were an awful lot of them — when you looked out the window, they were just wandering,” he said.**