A man who 'came back from the dead' has revealed what the afterlife is like - but then he immediately blocked it from his memory. Alistair Blake, 61, was dead for 90 minutes after a heart attack, before thankfully being revived by medics, and now he's opened up on the near-death experience.
Alistair, from Australia, died in January 2019 and his wife Melinda frantically performed CPR until the paramedics arrived, but he was officially dead for around an hour and a half, as the Daily Star reports. On the other side, he said there was a complete void, a nothingness, with no lights, no sounds, and no voices, and he said the experience was so frightening that his brain has blocked it all out.
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During the terrifying ordeal in 2019, Alistair's wife, Melinda, woke to find her husband "gurgling" and unresponsive in their home.
Melinda's quick thinking had her performing CPR on her husband of 35 years while she anxiously waited for the ambulance to arrive.
After attempting to revive Alistair for 20 minutes, paramedics arrived but he remained lifeless and clinically dead.
The medics worked on Alistair for over an hour, as they continued to administer CPR as well as giving him eight shocks to the chest with a defibrillator.
After 90 minutes of trying to restart Alistair's heart, a pulse was finally found.
The 61-year-old said: "Technically, I was dead for 90 minutes. I remember going to bed on the Saturday night – and the next thing I remember was waking up Thursday morning on a trolley going from ICU to coronary care.
"The human brain has totally blocked out what happened in between."
He explained: "A lot of people ask me if I saw anything, and no, I did not see anything. No bright lights, nothing like that whatsoever.
"It's a case of not knowing what's out there – but I don't mind about that, as long as I'm fit and healthy."
Alistair was then transported to Frankston Hospital where doctors were able to unclog his blocked artery.
A pacemaker was subsequently put on his heart as a precaution and Alistair was then discharged after 12 days.
He said that the experience has had a profound impact on his life, and he's thankful to be alive.
He added: "You take a totally different approach to life. Reducing the number of hours I work, trying to connect more with family and friends.
"My eating habits have changed. I eat more healthily and do more exercise, if you're gonna go, you're gonna go. If it's gonna happen it's gonna happen."
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