DAILY STAR
A fitness instructor who dropped dead in the middle of a basketball game for 28 terrifying minutes has revealed what he saw as he was sent to St Peter’s pearly gates.
Phill Zdybel, 57, collapsed following a coronary artery aneurysm while playing an intense game of basketball, which triggered a massive heart attack in November last year.
The taekwondo instructor very nearly left behind his son Joshua, who was watching him play that day in Geelong, Australia.
Luckily, Josh’s quick thinking in calling emergency services the moment he saw his dad, who works as a taxi driver for people with disabilities, fall meant they got there in time to save his life after onlookers also grabbed a nearby defibrillator to try and restart his heart.
When Phill woke up in hospital a few days later, he said he was told he had been dead for 28 minutes.
