A Dublin man has described how it felt to be 'dead for five minutes' after suffering a heart attack earlier this year.
Tour guide Kenny Eivers, who says he was never religious before the heart attack, revealed that he is now more open to spirituality after the experience.
Speaking to Dublin Live, Kenny explained how the heart attack happened, recalling: "I had a pain in my chest for a week.
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"I presented myself to A&E and I was waiting there for seven hours to get seen. I felt a really bad pain in my chest.
"I went up to the receptionist and as I was telling her something isn't right, I took a massive heart attack and basically died for five minutes.
"I was in hospital for six weeks and got a quadruple bypass."
Kenny described what he saw and felt, saying: "When I died in A&E, it's the only part of being unconscious in hospital that I can remember. I felt just a blackness then I woke up in a room.
"It was like a long room with a door at the end. It felt like I was being pushed towards the door.
"As I got closer to the door, there were two panels; a top panel and a bottom panel. The bottom panel was a kind of blood red colour.
"There were loads of little hands reaching out and I was being pushed towards the hands. They were just about to grab me and a bolt of electricity went straight through my body.
"Then I woke up on a trolley in A&E with a team of doctors and nurses around me."
He added: "I was never spiritual before that. Since that happened, it's probably like a spiritual awakening.
"I would have been very anti-religion. I'd be more open to it now."
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