'I've seen the afterlife - clear thing I remember before being brought back'
A beloved county councillor who nearly died after suffering a seizure at home joked he “didn't like the accommodation and came back” from the dead. Bert Biscoe, 70, had been at home in Truro when he suddenly collapsed due to a diabetic condition he was not aware he had.
His wife called 999 and was talked through how to administer chest compressions and he was unconscious for the next ten days. Now, having recovered from the ordeal, he says he vividly remembers seeing himself with tubes coming out of him while he was in the coma, while his family and doctors were in the room.
Mr Biscoe joked about his experience (Greg Martin / Cornwall Live)Bert, a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, city councillor and former Mayor of Truro, told Cornwall Live : “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.
"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. I had no idea of the passage of time and what was going on. As I was coming out of the coma I opened my eyes and this may have been hallucinatory but I remember looking up at a mirror and seeing myself with a green tube coming out of my mouth and doctors floating around a bit ethereally, and my wife and two daughters were there.
"When I got out of hospital I was standing waiting to cross a road when this woman came up to me and she was among several congregations who said that they'd been praying for me. She asked me if I'd had any hallucinations or visions to which the answer is no. It was just dark. I had the same question from research people at ICU. No, sorry.”
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Bert's written a poem called A la commode! which explains in humorous verse that he knew things would be okay when he first used the bedpan after coming out of the coma.
He added "She said 'Do you believe?' and I said I didn't. I did tell her though I sensed all the prayers, all the positive vibes and thoughts, all the letters and all the cards created a kind of force of good will around me. I think it's no coincidence 'care' rhymes with 'prayer'. The combination of all that thought and the technology, skill and innate cheerfulness of the staff at Treliske hospital is the reason I'm still here.
“The other thing at Treliske which is really remarkable, which I hadn't really thought about before, is that it is populated by an international group of people. One of the consultants was Iranian, the guy in the kitchen was from New Zealand, there were a couple of Filipino nurses who came in for a chat with me, and lots of staff from Africa; people from all over the world.
“It is a wonderment that here we have this thing which is dedicated to the people of Cornwall, like me, who collapse in their kitchen, they pitch up in ten minutes, shove a tube down your throat and pull you back ... it's a huge thing. For it to be provided by people from all over the world says something really profound and important about the society we live in these days.”
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