She died and lived to tell the tale.

A near-death experience has got nothing on this: Lauren Canaday was declared “clinically dead” after her heart stopped beating for a whole 24 minutes before she was resuscitated.

The author recently spilled the macabre details of her postmortem sojourn during an “Ask Me Anything” session currently blowing up on Reddit.

“I went into sudden cardiac arrest at home this past February — my husband called 911 and started CPR,” Canaday described in the harrowing post. “It took 24 minutes for EMTs to resuscitate me. After 9 days in the ICU, I was declared ‘cognitively intact’ and have no visible brain damage on MRIs.”

The survivor added that the results from her electroencephalogram — a test that measures electrical activity in the brain — came back normal despite the fact that she’d experienced an epileptic seizure for more than 30 minutes right after resuscitation.

Paramedics attributed her cardiac arrest to complications from COVID, which she tested positive for when being admitted to the ICU, Canaday said.

In clinical terms, Canaday, who describes her experience in her memoir, “Independence Ave,” and on Substack, had experienced what has gone the Lazarus effect or autoresuscitation. This rare phenomenon — whose exact cause remains unknown — occurs when a patient “declared dead from cardiac arrest suddenly shows signs of life,” making it seem like they’ve returned from the dead despite never actually dying.

Her case is particularly fascinating as the majority of people don’t live long after their “resurrection.” Of the 65 documented cases between 1982 and 2018, only 18 people made a full recovery.

Needless to say, Redditors were eager to discover what it felt like to die and then live to tell the tale.

Responding to questions on getting resuscitated by her hubby, Canaday said: “My husband did CPR for 4 minutes and the operator told him what to do, he’d never done it and hadn’t been certified in a long time. Luckily we are close to a fire station and EMTs arrived in 4 minutes to take over and use the paddles!”

As such, she will forever view her soulmate as her “hero.”

Naturally, many were curious about what she experienced in her “dead state” and how she felt after waking up.

“I was in a coma for 2 days and when I woke up I was very confused about being intubated and didn’t have any short-term memory for several more days,” she replied. “I never regained memory of the week prior or most of the time in ICU and am foggy on about a month prior.”

She said she also experienced some post-post-mortem amnesia, describing, “I don’t know when I started to understand what year it was and answer neuro questions accurately but I think it was a few days. I kept forgetting why I was in the hospital, I’m told.”

As the Lazarus effect survivor pointed out later on, her dance with death was nothing like a “deep sleep” as is so often depicted in movies and other forms of media.

She also didn’t see her life flashing before her eyes — a symptom described by many.

Perhaps most fascinating was Canaday’s feeling of “extreme peace,” which she said stayed with her for a “few weeks upon waking.” In fact, the author wrote later that she often revisits that “place on the floor where it happened to calm myself down when stressed.”

Unfortunately, the aftermath of her alleged rebirth has been far from peaceful. She said her “emotional state was exceptionally poor for a while” as she was filled with guilt, confusion and grief.

“I was a big pile of emotional human goo,” Canaday recalled. “Now I’m a lot more functional but still doing weekly therapy and monthly support groups plus had to take a break from work.”

She added: “So, it’s going to be a long road I think. It helps to meet people through the newsletter I started. That helps me process things. I email a lot with my subscribers.”

Canaday said her second coming has also had lasting effects on her personality, explaining: “Food favorites changed, and I have different priorities which affects friendships/relationships. My love for my husband has truly grown but might be some hero worship in play there.

“I feel like my first life ended in February and I woke up to my second life.”

Ultimately, Canaday says her brief fling death has given her a new outlook on life.

“I feel like there’s a very thin line between life and death and while I’m grateful to have more time with friends/family, I don’t feel worried about death anymore,” she said. “I’m much more worried about the pain often experience in life …”