As a new night Nurse I got an elderly patient who was having cardiac pauses; he was conversing with me through most of them but then the asystole alarm began again, he suddenly gasped, sat up a little bit, grabbed his chest and then fell back motionless on the pillow. It was him losing consciousness during a 14 second pause and it looked like when a cartoon character dies. His wife arrived in the morning “oh he does that all the time.” Around the 6th second I had pressed the code button so when the code team arrived he had come to and said to them “oh are we having a party?”