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{{Too listy}}[[File:BBQ Man.jpg|thumb|right|The extent of Miracle Day. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World]]'')]]{{you may|Series 4 (Torchwood)|n1=series 4 of ''Torchwood''}}

Without any immediately obvious cause, awareness of the event took time to develop. One of the earliest survivals was [[Oswald Danes]], a convicted prisoner in the [[United States]] about to be [[Death sentence|executed]]; although his lethal injection was carried out flawlessly on [[19 March]], the only effect was intense but temporary pain from the drugs. As hours passed, doctors around the planet began to realise that deaths of patients under their care (such as [[Rex Matheson]], who was impaled by a metal pole) had abruptly dropped to zero. Age, disease, trauma, and all other normally fatal conditions continued to hurt and debilitate their victims, but without killing them. The level of damage to the body did not matter. Extreme examples include an attempted suicide bomber whose entire body was almost totally burned and pulverised but retained some degree of consciousness even after his head was detached from the rest of his body ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World]]'') and a [[Lyn Peterfield|CIA agent]] whose neck was broken, yet she managed to stand and stumble away, her head facing backward ([[TV]]: ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]''). News media and the general public also began to realise the change. Eventually, the name of the event emerged on the back of the word "[[miracle]]," which began to trend across social networking sites.

The only thing that seemed to permanently kill humans was complete incineration; so long as the bodies remained intact to a certain degree, [[consciousness]] and life was still possible to a point, but otherwise human beings would continue to exist despite the impossibility of death or recovery. Even detached body parts would still be animated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World]]'') However it was later discovered that jumping off a tall enough building caused people to be forever unconscious, yet not dead, allowing suicide to exist to a certain degree. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Middle Men]]'') Also, under [[Angelo Colasanto]]'s bed was a null point to the miracle, where mortality was possible again, and death existed in that one place. A [[null field generator]] could exclude a person from the effects of the miracle. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road]]'')

Unlike the rest of humanity, [[Jack Harkness]], previously an immortal, became vulnerable to injury and death and also began ageing at a normal rate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World]]'')

[[Cancer]] cells, which are normally immortal, also became mortal, effectively curing cancer. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road]]'', ''[[Web of Lies]]'')

Eventually it was revealed that [[The Three Families]] fed Captain [[Jack Harkness]]'s immortal blood into a mysterious tunnel called [[the Blessing]] that controlled Earth's [[morphic field]]. This caused it to change the morphic field so that everyone became immortal. The Families had the plan to take over the immortal world using their connections once everything stabilized. Miracle Day finally ended when Jack Harkness and [[Rex Matheson]] fed Jack's now mortal blood into the Blessing, causing the Miracle to reverse itself with Jack regaining his immortality and everyone else regaining their mortality (Apart from Rex Matheson, who replaced most of his blood with some of Jack Harkness'). As the Miracle ended, everyone who was supposed to die woke up for a moment, before finally passing away. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Blood Line]]'')