This special profiles the extraordinary stories of three ordinary people who literally died and then came back to life.

A plucky teenager is shot after finding his mother being brutally attacked by her ex boyfriend, a diver is lost at sea for 23 hours before being rescued and a woman is shot through the eyes and blinded by an abductor but survives.

Roger and Dena's home overlooking the San Pasqual Valley is everything they've ever dreamed of until Roger awakes one day to find a 40-foot wall of fire racing up the valley towards their house.

A missionary working in Haiti is ambushed, shot and held for ransom by a gang. A tunneler returns to an underground shaft minutes after escaping to rescue two colleagues from the flooded cavity.