tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3108929999410529981.post7895949748601633828..comments2023-07-29T23:21:50.804-04:00Comments on Rationalist Medical Halacha: The Mixed Up Medical Principle and the Time of DeathThe Medical Halachic Rationalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271640073285131396noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3108929999410529981.post-89679952469000309082019-03-21T09:15:27.855-04:002019-03-21T09:15:27.855-04:00This is my first visit to your web journal! We are...This is my first visit to your web journal! We are a group of volunteers and new activities in the same specialty. Website gave us helpful data to work. <a href="Medical%20Staffing" rel="nofollow">Medical Staffing</a><br />Jack Johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933608625883364901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3108929999410529981.post-29936051706972734272010-10-28T23:11:41.419-04:002010-10-28T23:11:41.419-04:00To michael and daniel shain, See my latest post of...To michael and daniel shain, See my latest post of 10/28 where I respond to your comments. J - I changed the blog settings so anyone can comment, thanks for the suggestion.The Medical Halachic Rationalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14271640073285131396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3108929999410529981.post-86614520480775576202010-10-28T11:59:50.270-04:002010-10-28T11:59:50.270-04:00"This is clearly a product of poskim reading ..."This is clearly a product of poskim reading into the gemara conditions that are simply not there. There is no question in my mind, that the gemara meant exactly what it said. According to the gemara, if a person is not breathing, you can assume that he is dead."<br /><br />If I hold my breath, according to your reading of this gemara, I'm also dead. I think that it is reasonable to state that the gemara assumes this individual will not/cannot recover his ability to breathe. The application of common sense here is not tantamount to reading things into the gemara.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02457323287889627478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3108929999410529981.post-7306315835879603792010-10-27T16:17:10.227-04:002010-10-27T16:17:10.227-04:00Exciting blog and enlightening treatment of these ...Exciting blog and enlightening treatment of these vital issues. One problem - your commenting system seems to only allow those with registered accounts to participate in the discussions. I imagine there would be many times the amounts of comments that you have seen so far if this were not the case.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05617881881385544946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3108929999410529981.post-82628691578286902852010-10-26T14:04:19.885-04:002010-10-26T14:04:19.885-04:00If we can figure out a way to restart a dead brain...If we can figure out a way to restart a dead brain, are you saying we wouldn't need to do that (just like we shouldn't need to do CPR if cardiovascular death is real death)? Presumably, if the brain can be restarted, we would be obligated to do so, just like we are obligated to do CPR and use ventilators and bypass machines to resuscitate and cure people. This is not an "absurdity" - the need to try to save someone should apply however you define death. Also your whole assumption that it's obvious that "it's the brain where the source of life resides" is not really that obvious. We don't really know where the source of life is, and the Torah's psukim seem to support the idea that it's the breath (which I know you discussed in your earlier post). In chazal's day the brain, heart,and lungs could not function without each other. If one stopped, the others would stop within a very very short time. Now that we can keep some organs going without the others, we will run into "absurd" situations regardless of how we define death. A person with a spinal cord injury may not be able to breathe on his own (without a respirator) but nobody would consider him dead, even if you accept the cardiovascular definition of death. So the ability to keep someone alive with a respirator even if there brain is dead is not really mixed up even if chazal could not envision this possibility.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15345853359085926845noreply@blogger.com