According to a video she posted on Facebook Live Megan Marlow was called into a meeting on August 27 by a doctor, and was told “your husband is clinically deceased, he has passed away, he has suffered neurological death.”

Megan said a time of death had been written down for her husband, Pastor Ryan Marlow, with his body left on life support to preserve his organs for donation.

On Sunday and Monday Meghan mourned her husband at home, and received letters of sympathy from members of his congregation at Grace Baptist Church.

Later on Monday she was told her husband’s case was being reviewed by a specialist panel, and he was not neurologically dead.

Megan explained: “They said my husband did not in fact suffer neurological death, but that, he was not brain dead.

“But I said, ‘he’s still pretty much brain dead right?’ and I was told yes.”

The expectation was Pastor Marlow would officially pass away on Tuesday, with hospital workers prepared to line the hospital in an “honor walk” whilst his body was removed.

However, as his niece played Pastor Marlow videos of his children, he began moving his feet.

Megan said: “I’m crying, and I said to him, if you’re inside there and you can hear me, I need you to fight, I need you to fight like crazy, cos I’m gonna stop this process of organ donation, and we’re going to get some tests done because I don’t know what’s going on.

“Long story short: He’s not brain dead. He’s not brain dead my friends. The doctor would not even do the brain dead tests because they said there is brain activity. They did a CT scan, and there is blood flowing to his brain.”

“He’s supposed to be dead he’s supposed to be at the funeral home right now, according to these doctors,” she added.

Pastor Marlow will now be treated in Duke University Hospital in Durham, according to Iowa TV station KCCI.

However his condition remains critical, with Megan saying “he may still go to glory yet.”

The Facebook Live stream she posted has been viewed more than 500,000 times.

In May a baby in India was dug up alive an hour after being buried having been pronounced dead, in a case that was termed “utter medical negligence.”

A month earlier, in Peru, a woman interrupted her own funeral by knocking on the side of her coffin, after which she was taken out. Sadly, she did die a few hours later.

And in February 2021 a Portuguese man was found alive 18 days after his family believed he had died and he had been given a funeral.

His family were later told there had been an “error” in the hospital, and the body of another man had been buried.

Megan Marlow has been approached for comment.