A man who passed away briefly after collapsing in his home has revealed why he came back from the dead. Bert Biscoe, a Cornwall councillor and former mayor of Truro, suffered a severe seizure in May 2023 due to an undiagnosed diabetic condition.The 71-year-old died but was resuscitated by his wife Sue before being rushed to hospital.
He spent the next 10 days in a medically-induced coma.And after waking up and having an out-of-body experience, Bert revealed why he returned to the land of the living.
The politician joked that he was unimpressed with the "accommodation" on the other side, Cornwall Live reports.Speaking about the incident, Bert said: "If my missus hadn't phoned 999 and the girl on the other end hadn't said give him heart compressions and this is how you do it, then I would have died. "I was dead then.
I had a profound time on the other side in the dark although I didn't like the accommodation and came back."He continued: "I was out of it for ten days - I was unconscious for a chunk of it and then they put me into a controlled coma.
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