Lauren Canaday, a US author, shared her extraordinary experience of being clinically dead for over 24 minutes and returning to life during a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ session. Canaday suffered sudden cardiac arrest at home, and her husband’s immediate CPR intervention played a crucial role in her revival after 24 minutes of resuscitation by EMTs.
Expressing gratitude to her husband as her ‘hero,’ Canaday revealed her memory loss of the past week upon waking from a two-day coma. Despite a post-resuscitation epileptic seizure lasting over 30 minutes, an electroencephalogram showed normal brain activity.
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Paramedics attributed her cardiac arrest to complications from COVID-19, as she tested positive upon ICU admission. Her case falls into the rare Lazarus effect category, where a patient declared dead exhibits signs of life, often associated with autoresuscitation.
Canaday’s remarkable recovery makes her case stand out, accompanied by a lingering feeling of ‘extreme peace’ for weeks after waking. Importantly, she clarified the absence of the commonly described near-death experience of life flashing before her eyes.”
