Jeremy Renner Details The Moment He “Died” After His Snow Plow Accident
In his new memoir titled, ‘My Next Breath’, Jeremy Renner shares new insight into his snow plow accident and why he believes that he “died.” He writes:
“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired,” “After about thirty minutes on the ice of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing ten or twenty push-ups per minute for half an hour . . . that’s when I died.”
His heart rate slowed and his color changed. “I know I died—in fact, I’m sure of it,” he wrote. “When the EMTs arrived, they noted that my heart rate had bottomed out at 18, and at 18 beats per minute, you’re basically dead.” But he wasn’t scared. “What came to me on that ice was an exhilarating peace, the most profound adrenaline rush, yet an entirely tranquil one at the same time: electric serenity,” he noted. “I can still feel that space, silent, still, empty, but filled with every instant and all the forevers and, for the first time ever, my existence has nothing to do with time. It was an entirely beautiful place, filled with a knowable magic.”
My Next Breath: A Memoir by Jeremy Renner is available now.