‘Clinically Dead’ Women Wakes Up in French Hospital

Lydie Paillard, a sixty-year-old woman from France, collapsed while preparing for a session of chemotherapy.  After being resuscitated by doctors she was placed on a ventilator, and Paillard was declared clinically dead.  Upon learning of their mother’s condition, Paillard’s sons arranged to transfer her to another facility. Where a brain scan determined that she was not brain dead as previously believed.  Paillard woke from the dead a mere fourteen hours after her sons refused to remove her life support. She has very little memory of the experience, though she remembers feeling unwell after having an injection of ant nausea medication.

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If only everything in life had as happy of ending.  I can understand the sons wanting a second opinion, and I wonder if they found the facility their mother was using lacking in the first place.  The reason I question the facility is my own personal experience in dealing with my grandmother’s health care providers, whom I found extremely lacking in both skill and compassion.  In a situation like this, I myself do not know if I could make the decision either way. I know that neither of my parents wish to live out their lives on machines, but I do not know if I could make the decision to “unplug” them if there was any hope in this world of their recovery. Sometimes there are things that cannot be explained by medical science, these are our everyday miracles and while we will never understand them we should value them for what they are miracles.