(boat horn blaring) (gentle music)
- [Jungeun] So this is Mapo Bridge.
This is a really famous place for people to come here,
to enjoy the nice view, nice scenery of Seoul.
- [Man] Oh, okay.
- And also this is a sad place.
A lot of people come here
with like suicidal thoughts and intentions.
This is really easily accessible.
That area, it's Wall Street.
So some investors who failed or lost a lot of money, they-
- They'd walk right over here and jump off the bridge?
- Yes. That happened too. - Jesus.
What do these things say right here?
- Yeah. These are the prevention messages.
- [Man] What's this? - We all suffer.
You're not the only one.
- [Ravi] Oh my God.
- These messages go all the way down the bridge?
- Yes, right.
- [Man] Sorry. What is this?
- So these are the Korean food pictures.
- So the idea is that food reminds us of our upbringing.
- Maybe. - If my mom,
put pictures up of Indian food up on the walls,
that would make me remember my entire life.
- Maybe you can think about your loved ones.
If I kill myself, what are the consequences?
- [Matt] Walking on that bridge, I was thinking about
how we pull out of our lowest moments in life.
It reminded me of all the people
who helped me through my low point.
It also reminded me of all the people
who helped Matt through his.
Almost exactly a year ago,
he went to the ER for what started as severe stomach pains.
- It's been a couple, like an intense couple of weeks,
just having the anniversary of everything that happened.
I don't know, when you're up there,
and you think about people that are (sniffs)
jumping off and doing that,
it just makes me think what would have happened to my family
if I hadn't made it, and getting a second chance at life
is pretty overwhelming sometimes.
I remember my stomach really hurting,
going to the hospital,
and they can't figure out what's going on.
They rush me down into surgery.
And then my mom goes over the loudspeaker,
"Code Blue in Room 437."
And my mom works in a hospital,
so she knows that means flat line.
So she rushes upstairs, and she gets to the door,
and the nurse says, "I'm sorry, you can't come in.
This is very serious."
And she said, "Look, I was there when he came in this world,
if he's leaving this world right now,
I'm going to be in that room."
So the nurse let her in.
And she came in, and they were doing the compressions,
and they were doing the electric shock paddles.
My body was bouncing up and down, but I wasn't responding.
- And it lasted what, like four minutes?
- They finally went on for 4 1/2 minutes.
- You were dead for 4 1/2 minutes.
- Yeah, when I was flat lining, it was like,
almost like if you're looking up,
if you've ever been scuba diving,
and you're looking up at the surface of the ocean
and you can see a little bit of light coming through.
- Oh my God.
- I could hear my mom saying,
"Matthew David Pohlson, you gotta fight.
You gotta fight," from the light.
And I remember thinking, I got to get there.
And it felt like this impossibly long journey.
And then I remember getting finally breaking through
and seeing my mom and seeing my dad
and just smiling and just feeling pure joy.
Isn't that crazy?
I'm operating off that heart.
What a crazy world!
Holy, I can't believe they can do this.
I love all of you who thought about me
and who I heard cared about me.
I love you with my whole heart and that whole heart,
both of them! (woman laughs)
From this point forward, I can say,
I love you with both my hearts.
(gentle music)
The doctor told me when I left the hospital,
When I finish my career 30 years from now,
and I'm talking about the most extraordinary case
I've ever seen, this is gonna be it."
This is a world-renowned surgeon.
He's like, "We had you at 0% chance of survival.
The fact that we have you going home
with your full faculties,
we have no medical explanation for that."
And I said, "Well, as a man of science,
how do you define those larger forces?"
And he said, "It was love,
and it was optimism that brought you back."
And I totally believe that.
If you guys had not sent that energy during that time,
if you had not rallied around that,
I am not standing here.
- And you started working again in like what,
a month after that?
- It was two months.
But yeah, at that time, that seemed like a long time.
Looking back, that seems pretty crazy.
I think about the people up on that bridge,
what some small little act of love
would have maybe intervened at some point.
All these little actions, they add up.
(gentle music)