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?