[Avodah] Pulling the Plug

cantorwolberg at cox.net cantorwolberg at cox.net
Tue May 8 04:49:36 PDT 2012


I heard a lecture from Prof. Charles Sprung, director of the ICU at Hadassah Medical Center.
He stated that as we know according to halacha, we cannot disconnect a ventilator once it has
been connected. However, he said something that sounded amazing to me. He said that it is
acceptable according to most poskim, to attach the ventilator to a timer and in that way it would
go off whenever it was set for. Am I the first person in the Avodah group who has heard this?


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