Factual error: Asystole (the lack of cardiac activity, also known as the 'flatline') is not treated with defibrillation (electric shocks) but with alternating doses of the drugs epinephrine and atropine.
Flatliners (1990)
Plot summary
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, William Baldwin
Four medical school students play God by killing then reviving each other so they can know what death is really like but there are ramifications of their actions.
Bill Bergquist
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Nelson Wright: Somehow we've brought our sins back physically. And they're pissed.
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Answer: Billy forgave Nelson. he saw that Nelson was willing to die to be forgiven. That's why Billy smiled.
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