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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley

Pastor pronounced brain dead by doctors shows signs of life minutes before organs harvested

Megan Marlow / Facebook

The wife of a North Carolina pastor who was pronounced brain dead by doctors says he miraculously began showing signs of neurological activity minutes before his organs were to be harvested for donation.

Ryan Marlow, 37, had spent two weeks in Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center suffering from listeria when doctors declared him “clinically deceased” on 27 August, wife Megan Marlow said in a livestream on Facebook.

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