[Avodah] Brain Death

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:56:13AM -0500, RCM asked:
>                          Your logic implies that even real decapitation
> is only a cause of death because it leads to cessation of heart activity,
> and not as an independent cause of death in its own right. Does RMT give
> your logic explicitly somewhere?

The issue isn't whether the brain controls each heartbeat, but whether
the heart can continue without a working brain stem. IOW, not cause, but
an indication that the body can't still be independently producing breath
and heartbeat.

As for a RMT actually saying this, listen to
<http://www.hods.org/video/html/Tendler%20-%20RMoshe.html>
in the beginning and around 2/3 or 3/4 of the way through.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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