'Dead' fish miraculously comes back to life the moment the toilet flushes

Either this beta fish had a terribly short life or it hatched an amazing escape plan.

Fish owner Brook Essick was transferring her fish Dane from a small glass to a large tank after a cleaning when something went wrong. Moments after the transfer, Dane's body became lifeless, and Essick presumed the poor fish dead.

"When we put him back in the bowl, he swam for probably five seconds and then just immediately 'died' and started floating," Essick told Mashable.

Essick was unable to confirm that Dane still had life left in his small fishy body, so she did what most fish owners do when their loved ones die, and she flushed Dane off to fishy heaven.

But Dane wasn't giving up so easily.

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The cool water of the toilet sprung Dane back to life. Could it be? Yes. Dane was alive.

But it was too late. The toilet had been flushed, and Dane was long gone before the he could be pulled back to safety.

Some people were obviously upset for poor Dane, but Essick insists it was a terrible accident.

"I was in shock and I felt so bad," said Essick. "Regardless of what people are saying, I did not mean to kill the fish, I thought he was already dead."

"Gone but never forgotten," Essick's friend Macy wrote when she tweeted a video of Dane's demise.

RIP Dane.