Tina Hines was clinically dead for 27 minutes after suffering a sudden
cardiac arrest while walking with her husband, Brian. Despite his CPR efforts, she remained
unresponsive. Paramedics tried multiple times to revive her, but she showed
no signs of life. As her family prayed, her sister Tammy had an unexplainable
feeling that Tina would survive. Miraculously, Brian later received a text: “Tina is alive!”
When Tina awoke in the ICU, she was weak but determined to communicate.
She signaled for a pen and paper, writing the words, “It’s real.” When asked if
she meant heaven, she nodded. Tina later described seeing Jesus and “the gates of heaven” bathed in a radiant yellow light.
Her survival without brain damage astonished doctors. Her niece later tattooed
“It’s real” on her wrist, saying, “Her story is too real not to share and has
given me a stronger confidence in a faith that so often goes unseen.”
Tina’s experience deepened her family’s faith and left many wondering—could heaven truly be real?
