This might be of interest--
Afterlife (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
My friend Tom Snow was dead for maybe five minutes back around 1980 from a number of knife wounds into his heart upper chest area. Lost a lot of higher brain functions like his command of Spanish but maintained others.
He either was scared of the re-action of his peers in the Philosophy Department at the University of Nevada, Reno or just said that he did not remember anything after he was stabbed. The man that did it got off very lightly because of a heat of passion defense as Tom was trying to pick up his wife and I believe that this was rather close to Mustang Ranch but that just might be part of the story that was going around back then.
Tom cracked up when Indiana Jones shot the sword welding thug in
Raiders of the Lost Ark when we went to see it. He was still trying to pick up married ladies around me so I kind of started to distance myself. He did have a habit of ****ing off boyfriends and wives.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Rotten Tomatoes
He still looks like quite a character.