[Avodah] brain dead

[Eli Turkel]

<<Your proof (if I understand it correctly) works on the presumption that if
someone had a heart transplant, then he is already dead, and so it would be
allowed to "kill" him. "Ayn k'tila achar k'tila", as it were.

But I believe that this is *not* the case. Torah Jews *do* believe in
Techiyas HaMeisim. It *is* possible for one who is dead to live again.>>

I believe there was at least a discussion whether someone who had a heart
transplant
needed to remarry his wife, halitza and questions of inheritance. etc

As far as I know no one in practice applies to such a patient any of the
halachot
of a dead person

-- 
Eli Turkel
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