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John Sumwalt For Agri-View
Mar 31, 2024
Mar 31, 2024

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Philip Hasheider is a farmer, writer and local historian. He’s the author of 30 books on farming, local history and family stories. He lives on a farm in south-central Wisconsin with his wife, Mary Hasheider, where pasture-grazed beef is a central part of their farm’s legacy.

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Phillip Hasheider says his beef cattle are acting strange the morning of his heart attack, giving him their full attention and racing away from him.

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“Six Minutes In Eternity” is the extraordinary story of Philip Hasheider’s near-death experience; it’s about the events of an early-October morning leading to his sudden cardiac death and what he experienced during that time away from his body. For six minutes his heart was not beating, his lungs were no longer breathing and his skin was an ashen-color turning blue. He was lifeless, flat on the floor.

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The home farm where Philip Hasheider grew up is home to his mother and brother at the time of his collapse.

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John Sumwalt For Agri-View

Phillip Hasheider is a retired Wisconsin beef farmer and an award-winning author. He was dead for six minutes and came back to tell about it. His “Six Minutes in Eternity” is a book you will want to read.

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John Sumwalt is a retired pastor and the author of “Shining Moments: Visions of the Holy in Ordinary Lives” and “How to Preach the Miracles.” Email johnsumwalt@gmail.com or call 414-339-0676 to reach him.