Lady U50 'reborn' after 24 minutes, depicting a surprising parallel world

"I saw my body lying there but felt more alive than ever, awake and conscious, but invisible to the people around me," Tessa said of the 24-minute cardiac arrest.

A seemingly ordinary morning turned out to be a fateful moment for Tessa Romero, a 50-year-old journalist and sociologist who lives in Málaga, Spain. She suddenly suffered heart failure after taking her daughter to school. During the 24-minute period when her heart stopped beating completely, Tessa experienced what she described as "a century in the afterlife".

"I know the departure is not the end. I was lost, and I saw something on the other side. That's real, not a dream. I feel like a huge burden has just been lifted from me," Tessa shared.

Tessa said that when the heart stops working, a sense of peace prevails, which is a state of complete relief, free from all physical and mental pain. Tessa described herself as floating on the ceiling, looking down at her own body lying motionless: "I saw my body lying there but felt more alive than ever, awake and conscious, but invisible to the people around me. I experienced an overwhelming sense of peace, all physical and mental pain was over."

According to her, time at that time no longer passed as usual. Everything slows down, becomes dense and meaningful, as if "the world is passed through an ancient filter".

Before experiencing a near-death experience, Tessa had been battling an illness for months with no doctor determining the cause. "My body is weakening, but there are no tests that give specific conclusions. It was the darkest time of my life," she said.

Tessa said that medical experts and scientists studying the phenomenon of near-death have contacted her. "Many of them agreed that my illness could be a physical manifestation of mental anguish that I could not express. My body spoke up for the pain that I was trying to hide inside," Tessa said.

This experience completely changed the way Tessa views her departure. If she used to be afraid of leaving as if she was afraid of a dark area, now she sees it as a gentle transition. The Spanish woman recalled: "It was like walking through a door to a place where everything makes sense, where there is love, there is peace, and there is no more pain. I'm no longer afraid to leave. I know life goes on, and we're never really alone."

After returning from the 'afterlife', Tessa cherishes life more than ever. Every moment for her became sacred. "I understand that the most important thing is not what we own, but how we love, how we walk together, and how we leave an impression on others," the sociologist said.

Regarding this phenomenon, Benjamin Franklin once said: "In this world there is nothing more certain than a permanent departure and taxes." However, in a clinical context, when a person stops breathing, the heart and organs stop working, it is not yet possible to say for sure that they have died.

According to Medicalnewstoday, in 2014 an 80-year-old woman "froze" in a hospital morgue after being misdiagnosed. That same year, a New York hospital announced that a woman had a brain stop after an overdose. The woman woke up shortly after being taken to the operating room for an organ harvest.

In another case, 91-year-old Janina Kolkiewicz was determined by doctors to have died when her heart stopped working and she could no longer breathe. Everyone was preparing funeral rites for her in the hospital, and 11 hours later Janina Kolkiewicz suddenly woke up expressing a craving for tea and pancakes. She became a phenomenon "returning from the underworld".

In 2001, a 66-year-old man suffered cardiac arrest during abdominal aneurysm surgery. The doctor for 17 minutes tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, etc., but the patient still did not wake up. Doctors eventually determined he was dead. However, suddenly this man's heart worked again 10 minutes later.

According to scientists, these seemingly extraordinary stories of death and resurrection are a sign of Lazarus syndrome. This syndrome is defined as the delayed return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after a cardiopulmonary arrest. When this pressure stops working, it will gradually release and the heart and lungs will start working again. Since 1982, when the Lazarus phenomenon was first described in medicine, at least 38 cases have been recorded. Patients who are determined to have died after cardiac arrest will wake up and function normally.

A study published in 2007 by Vedamurthy Adhiyaman and colleagues found that about 82% of people with Lazarus syndrome occur within 10 minutes of a heart-lung failure. 45% of patients recover well after waking up.

A question arises whether the organs in the body are stopped due to the delay in circulation or the lack of continuous resuscitation techniques at the hospital. Currently, scientists around the world have not fully explained this Lazarus phenomenon. However, they believe that this syndrome is more common than previous studies.

One theory is that this phenomenon is caused by the side effects of medicinal herbs that attempt to resuscitate, such as adrenaline. In addition, excessive levels of potassium are also hypothesized for the Lazarus phenomenon. Scientists believe that "It should not be called a phenomenon of "losing and coming back to life", because patients with Lazarus syndrome have never died".

So how do you know exactly if a person has actually lost or not? According to scientists, there are two types of death: clinical loss and biological loss. Clinical loss is defined as no heartbeat, no breathing, and biological death is no brain activity. From this definition, you can recognize whether a person has lost or not. However, in some cases, it is not that simple.

Some medical manifestations can diagnose loss such as hypothermia, paralysis, and "status quo", a syndrome in which the patient remains fully awake but cannot respond. Accordingly, when the body temperature drops suddenly, it will be easy to be exposed to prolonged exposure and colds, leading to loss of breath. Some patients have hypothermia that causes their heart rate and breathing to slow down, to the point that it is almost impossible to detect, thinking they are gone.

Hypothermia was also the cause of the misdiagnosis of the death of a newborn baby in Canada in 2013. Babies are born on sidewalks in freezing temperatures. The doctors couldn't feel her heart rate and breathing. The baby was declared dead. Two hours later, the baby began to move.

Dr. Michael Klein, of the University of British Columbia in Canada, says that the baby's exposure to cold temperatures causes all circulation to stop. Meanwhile, the child's nervous state is still active and still aware under the cold.

Many people with "status quo" have slow breathing, decreased sensitivity and complete immobility, which can last from a few minutes to several weeks. This condition can arise as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. Accordingly, the patient is aware of his surroundings but has complete paralysis of the voluntary muscles, except for the muscles that control the movement of the eye. As a result, many people are falsely declared "lost". Fortunately, according to the researchers, Lazarus syndrome is extremely rare.

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