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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: Marty Bluke
<marty.bluke@gmail.com><BR>"<BR><BR>http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Science/announcing_plan_for_first_head_transplant_in_man_1205861.html<BR><BR>The
Halachic implications of this fascinating. Halachically how would we<BR>identify
this person? Do we follow the head, the body, or neither? What is<BR>the status
of his wife? etc.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>It seems to me that the halachic status of a man without a head is "dead"
-- psik reisha. The status of the wife would be "almanah" -- both
wives, of both men. Maybe after the head transplant the person is alive
again but I really doubt that will ever be possible.</DIV>
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<DIV>This does raise another question though. What will happen after
techias hameisim, when those who were formerly dead become alive again?
What happens to their wives -- who may have remarried after they were
widowed? Will old family relationships be re-established or will everyone
start fresh as autonomous, family-less people?</DIV>
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