AceShowbiz - Jeremy Renner was run over by his 14,000-pound PistenBully snowplow at his Nevada home while attempting to rescue his nephew, Alex Fries. The accident left him with over 30 broken bones and significant blood loss.

As Renner lied on the ice, he experienced what he described as a moment of death. "As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year's Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired," Renner wrote.

He compared breathing to "doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute for half an hour," and after a 30-minute struggle, he recounted, "That's when I died."

Renner's injuries were severe, including "blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries," and hypothermia was a significant risk as he awaited emergency responders for 45 minutes.

"Though I'd broken more than 30 bones and lost six quarts of blood (I'd find out the true extent of the injuries only later), an even greater danger to me as the minutes dragged by on the ice was hypothermia," he said.

Renner's nephew and neighbor watched in horror as his heart rate dropped to 18 beats per minute and his changing color. "I know I died - in fact, I'm sure of it," Renner wrote.

He described an ethereal experience, feeling "an exhilarating peace" and a vision of his entire life, "When I died, what I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy."

Eventually, a force seemed to pull him back to the living world. "I could see my lifetime. I could see everything all at once," he recalled. "In death, there was no time, no time at all, yet it was also all time and forever."

Renner's memoir reveals the profound effect the accident had on him, turning a near-fatal experience into a moment of personal glory. For young people, his story is a testament to resilience and the importance of family support in the face of life-threatening challenges.