We all ponder what's waiting for us beyond the grave, but it's simply something that we will have to wait and see.
There are no return trips from the afterlife - or so we think.
One woman claims to have gotten a glimpse of the other side after she effectively died for a total of 27 minutes.
Fit and healthy mother-of-four Tina Hines suddenly kicked the bucket on her own driveway in front of her husband Brian.
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He frantically performed CPR on his spouse and battled to revive her as she suffered a cardiac arrest in February 2018.
Tina was 'blue and lifeless' by the time an ambulance showed up at her home in Arizona, US.
Still, paramedics continued to work on her en route to the hospital.
The mum was shocked with a defibrillator six times by medics, but nothing seemed to bring her back.
For a total of 27 minutes, Tina had no heartbeat and was supposedly dead.
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But after being intubated at the hospital, she eventually awoke - with a message she desperately wanted to share.
Despite just coming round, the first thing she asked for was a pen and paper so that she could scribble something down.
It was barely legible, but her family managed to decipher the ominous scrawl. It simply read: "It's real."
Her loved ones explained she simply nodded her head when they began questioning what she was referring to.
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Brian recalled: "I go, 'The pain? The hospital?' She's slowly nodding her head. Eyes are closed.
"And then my daughter goes, 'Heaven?' And she nods yes."
He told the Christian Broadcasting Network that he was warned his wife probably wouldn't be able to speak for a while when she finally roused.
But Tina couldn't stop talking when she woke up - as she told her family about her sneak peek of the 'afterlife'.
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The mum claimed that she had 'saw Jesus face to face' and he had been standing there with his arms open wide for her.
She also described seeing a 'incredible glow that was the most vibrant and beautiful yellow' as well as being overwhelmed by a feeling of 'peacefulness'.
Luckily, Tina's supposed taster session of the next life came to an end, allowing her to get back to recovering in hospital.
Just four days after suffering the cardiac arrest, she was discharged without any concerns regarding her dice with death.
Now she is adamant that there is something waiting for us - which is surely better than the alternative of eternal nothingness.
Olivia Burke