Al Pacino was close to death. In an interview with The New York Times, Al Pacino recalled the period before the availability of COVID-19 vaccines. At that time, he felt very bad, suffering from high fever and severe dehydration. “I asked someone for a nurse to hydrate me. I was sitting in my house and… it was like I was missing, like I had disappeared. Just like that. I had no pulse,” Pacino said.
He added that within minutes an ambulance arrived and about six paramedics and two doctors were standing around him. “They were wearing strange outfits that looked like they were from outer space,” he reported. Everyone stood around him and said, “He’s back! He’s here!”
When asked whether experiencing a “temporary death” and coming back to life influenced his attitude towards spirituality, Pacino replied: “There is nothing there. As Hamlet said: To be or not to be.” And he quotes: “A land absent from atlases, from which no explorer has ever returned.” And then he says these words: “Nothing else.” It was “Nothing else.” You’re gone, and that’s it. “I never thought about it before,” Pacino added. “I died once – that sounds good, doesn’t it? I guess it’s natural that as you get older you have a different perspective on death. It’s just the way it is. It just comes like many other things.” things”.
