[Avodah] R. Dovid Feinstein

Allan Engel allan.engel at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 08:10:11 PST 2013


Not sure that's correct, later in the transcript (emphasis mine):

"My father ZT”L's position of what constitutes death is when a person
cannot breathe *on his own*. It doesn’t matter if his heart is working or
is not working."

On 28 February 2013 16:03, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> RDF's formulation would have RMF say that a person r"l with no brain
> stem function who is breathing through artificial means is NOT dead. RMT
> would say he is -- that RMF's position is that death is with the end of
> AUTONOMOUS breathing.
>
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