Dateline NBC recently ran this story about Zach Dunlap. 21-year-old Zach had flipped his ATV and suffered a serious brain injury.
His doctor ordered a blood flow scan to determine if there was any blood still coursing through Zack’s brain. Zach's mom explained, "The doctor took us in and showed us the image on the computer. And he told us the dark areas will be the areas where there's no blood flow to the brain . . . and that was the whole brain. That was the whole thing. It was just black." Zach was declared brain dead. As Zach's doctor explained, "he was dead. He meets the legal, medical requirements for declaring a patient brain dead. "
The facts suggest that the brain death tests were accurately performed. But hours after being declared dead, his doctors detected "purposeful movements." He was not dead after all. As MSNBC reports, "tests can be fallible . . . [and] doctors here haven't been able to explain Zack’s return from a scientific standpoint."