From the London Mail [caution, lewd tabloid]:
Despite his disbelief in the afterlife, Hernandez said that he spent those moments of deep physical pain seeking help from a higher power. ‘I started thinking about God,’ he said, recalling those desperate moments in hospital. ‘Saying: ‘If you get me through this event I will change.’ That fear that I felt in that moment was incredibly competitive,’ Hernandez said, ‘And I started asking myself, ‘Well, what if God is real?”
As doctors and nurses rushed to his aid, Hernandez said his consciousness was soon transported through a dark otherworldly portal that led to a mysterious transitional realm of living light and color that left him ‘instantly amazed.’ He spent three minutes clinically dead, came back but fell back into the same state for another two minutes, which he said felt like hours as he watched his lifeless body in the hospital.