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- Title
"WHEN HAS THE GRIM REAPER FINISHED REAPING?" HOW EMBRACING ONE RELIGION'S VIEW OF DEATH CAN INFLUENCE ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIFORM DETERMINATION OF DEATH ACT.
- Authors
Shuster, Kenneth
- Abstract
The article discusses legal, religious, and cultural perspective on death and their influence on the acceptance of the Uniform Determination of Death Act. Topics discussed include the Jewish legal definition of death, the Jewish law that recognizes lack of spontaneous respiration as a brain failure, the Jewish oral tradition Mishnah in Oholot and the Talmud in Chullin that cites decapitation as a cause of death. It mentions Shulchan Aruch, a legal code in Judaism authored by Yosef Karo.
- Subjects
PROOF &; certification of death (Jewish law); KARO, Yosef; BEHEADING in art; MISHNAH; TALMUD
- Publication
Touro Law Review, 2014, Vol 30, Issue 3, p655
- ISSN
8756-7326
- Publication type
Article