Woman who ‘died’ for 27 minutes wrote sobering message when she woke up about what she saw

The afterlife is something all of us have thought about - perhaps too much - at some point or another.

But sadly, it's a mystery no one will ever be able to solve. I mean, you would have to physically die and then come back, which is impossible, right? Well, maybe not.

A US woman was able to see first-hand what lay in store for her in the great beyond when she spent close to half-an-hour clinically dead... which is about as close as we're ever gonna get to an eyewitness account.

On 12 February 2018, Tina Hines, from Arizona, suffered a near fatal heart attack while she was out hiking with her husband, Brian.

And while Brian desperately attempted to resuscitate his wife, the paramedics eventually arrived and took over.

Tina Hines was clinically dead for almost half-an-hour (Facebook/Tina Hines)

The paramedics managed to bring Tina back to life multiple times, before they eventually placed her on the defibrillator. In total, she was clinically dead for around 27 minutes before being stabilised and intubated.

And when she woke, Tina immediately left a message with her family, but not a verbal one; instead she grabbed a piece of paper and a pen, and scribbled down a short message.

It read: "It's real."

While her family were obviously baffled by what was going on, still reeling from the trauma of almost losing someone they love, Tina simply pointed upwards.

Was this a sign that heaven was real?

The note where Tina wrote 'it's real' to her family (Tina Hines)

Following her incredible ordeal, Tina wrote about her near death experience in great detail in her book, Heaven... It's real: How dying changes living, which was released in 2021.

Speaking about it all, Tina told AZfamily.com that the figure she saw when she died was Jesus.

She described her vibrant sights and the sounds she heard.

"Unbelievable rest and peacefulness of what I experienced," she added to Christian Broadcasting Network.

The next question to raise is the cause of near-death experiences.

Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a study in 2013 which discovered that the brain is more active in the moments before death than in most other conscious states.

Dr. Jimo Borjigin, of the University of Michigan, said: "A lot of people thought that the brain after clinical death was inactive or hypoactive, with less activity than the walking state, and we show that is definitely not the case."

So it turns out the brain is still very much conscious in the moments before death - which could explain the vivid experiences some people have.