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Jeremy Renner Believes He Briefly Died After That Snowplow Accident

Offering a trippy description of what death felt like in his new memoir.

Photo: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival According to Renner, his temporary death happened after he had been lying on the ice for about 30 minutes, waiting for first responders to arrive. He later learned from EMTs that his “heart rate had bottomed out at 18,” making him “basically dead,” though he also asserts in the memoir, “I know I died — in fact, I’m sure of it.” Renner, who broke more than 30 bones and lost six quarts of blood in the accident, had stepped in front of the machine to try to stop it from crushing his nephew.

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