[Avodah] RSZA opinion on brain-death?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, April 11, 2007 4:03 am, Shaya Potter wrote:
: 1st to include RSZA in the "breathing" section, seems somewhat
: irresponsible as his view seems to have nothing to do with breathing,
: as even if the breathing functions of the brain are gone, but other
: functions remain, it would appear that RSZA would consider the person
: alive.

I am curious if any of the doctors here can comment as to whether or not that
is physically possible. My understanding was that things like breathing are so
core to the central nervous system that it would be the last thing to ch"v
shut down.

Usually evolutionary explanations would come with it, IIRC. Breathing was
among the first things the central nervous system took over, and everything
else grew around that, layer after layer, consciousness last.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi