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Well, he ain't completely wrong.
The "no brain activity" is based on trust that the doctor in question knows what the hell they're talking about and doesn't have a reason to lie, so it's usually recommended to get multiple independent opinions to avoid the possibility of malpractice.
People have been declared legally dead, only to wake up at various points past it, such as the morgue, during autopsy, in the casket without an autopsy, already buried.
And there have been reports of partial resistance to anaesthetics where patients were paralyzed/partially unconscious, yet felt the pain of operations.
Organ donation is the right thing to do when you're certain to die. However, as proven by the Alabama prison system recently, where there's profit to be made, abuse is the norm, not the exception.
This bit of evidence doesn't really support the overarching theory. Since the 1980s there have been only a couple dozen of these incidents, and they for the most part always have one common denominator, the affected persons being very old.
It can be harder to accurately find the pulse and other life signs on the elderly, and people aren't as likely to really search for signs of life on someone who looks as fragile as a terminally ill elderly patient.
The vast majority of transplants are from young healthy people who were involved in traumatic accidents, and thus wouldn't really be subject to the Lazarus effect.
Recently?
How recent do you expect it to be? Here's an article. Activate reader/text mode. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317645
How accurate it is, dunno. Just searched for one at random.
That seems to be specifically about heart failure. I think they declare the patients dead not because their brain is dead, but because their heart stopped so the brain will die anyways. So if the heart restarts they come back from dead
I'm one of those people who are resistant to anesthesia. Waking up during a colonoscopy, remembering a transesophagel echo, and not being numb during a vasectomy are things I wouldn't recommend experiencing.