Woman ‘died’ for 27 minutes and woke up demanding to write down two words | World | News
Tina Hines had an important message she wanted to get down (Image: CBN)
For 27 minutes, Tina Hines was clinically dead.
While preparing for a hike with her husband Brian, she experienced a severe cardiac arrest which stopped her heart. In a desperate bid to save her, Brian administered CPR, ultimately reviving her with assistance from paramedics.
During the ambulance journey to hospital, Tina repeatedly drifted in and out of consciousness. By the time medical staff stabilised her condition, she had effectively been dead for nearly half an hour.
On regaining consciousness and unable to speak, Tina immediately seized a pen and paper. With trembling hands and barely opened eyes, she scrawled just two words: “It’s real.”
Initially, her husband Brian was baffled by the mysterious message. Was she referring to her suffering?, reports the Mirror. Or the hospital surroundings?
This was the message she wrote down (Image: CBN)
When he queried whether this was her meaning, Tina shook her head.
Only when their daughter suggested heaven did Tina acknowledge with a nod.
After making a complete recovery, Tina was able to articulate her experience and explain the profound message she’d written. She told journalists she had felt an unprecedented sense of tranquillity and serenity.
Moreover, Tina maintains she witnessed ‘Jesus standing’ before a ‘glow’ with outstretched arms.
Tina’s husband Brian with her in hospital (Image: CBN)
“The colours were so vibrant,” she recalled. “It was so real.”
Following her extraordinary ordeal and complete recovery, Tina proceeded to write a book chronicling her experience, discussing how the episode fundamentally transformed her perspective on existence, fear and mortality itself.
Whilst for many people, encounters like Tina’s suggest proof of life beyond death, it should be acknowledged that opinion remains divided.
Numerous medical professionals contend that during bodily shutdown, the brain undergoes an intense spike in activity which may trigger hallucination-like phenomena.
This, coupled with pre-existing beliefs about what the hereafter might entail, could provide an alternative interpretation for what she witnessed and subsequently documented.
Nevertheless, Tina remains utterly convinced that she genuinely glimpsed the other side, and that her visions were nothing less than a portal into the authentic afterlife.
“Jesus is real,” she insists. “Heaven is real.”
