Donald Sutherland saw ''the white light'' when he died for a ''few seconds'' after being stricken with meningitis while filming 'Kelly's Heroes'.
Donald Sutherland saw ''the white light'' when he died for a ''few seconds'' while filming 'Kelly's Heroes'.
The 76-year-old actor played the part of Sergeant Oddball in the 1970 comedy/war film, and during the middle of shooting he was hit with a bout of spinal meningitis, causing him to go into a coma and he admits he ''dug his feet in'' so as not to pass away.
He said: ''I got sick in the middle of shooting 'Kelly's Heroes'. I came to Yugoslavia for a day's filming and I was out for six weeks.
''They took me to hospital - I had spinal meningitis. They didn't have the antibiotics, so I went into a coma, and they tell me that for a few seconds, I died. I saw the blue tunnel, and I started going down it. I saw the white light. I dug my feet in.''
However, Donald was tempted for a second to stop fighting to stay alive.
He added: ''I didn't want to go - but it was incredibly tempting. You just go, 'Aw, s**t man, why not?' ''
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