The man had yet to show sign of positive activity in his brain. It seemed something had overloaded the neural pathways, in a sense short circuiting his brain. The doctors were completely baffled. He was physically unharmed, and showed no evidence of any sort of trauma to his brain. The car accident had left him bruised and injured severely, but there was nothing to explain his coma that they could find.<br/><br/>And so he slept on, unresponsive, unaware. By all definitions, he was dead.