hallelujah, we thank him right now! right now! thank him. >> and williams' revival couldn't have happened at a better time. he was already in the embalming room. >> he was not dead, long story short. >> so he missed it by how much? >> reporter: i don't know. i don't know. >> a couple minutes, maybe? >> no. no. more than that. we definitely was not going to do anything to him. >> once you saw that he was alive? >> right, that he was not deceased. >> reporter: an indefibrillator must have jump-started his heart after he was in the body bag. rushed back to the hospital, this lifelong farmer is described as weak but talking. with a little more time, apparently, left in this world. david mattingly, cnn, atlanta. >> pretty incredible, huh?