The Uniform Law Commission, also known as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, has been around for some130 years. The goal is to help each state adopt well-conceived and non-partisan legislation to render statutory law be clear and stable.
Continue reading Organ Donation Issues
This new research leaves me pretty frightened.
I’ve told you before that when the Sfardi rabbi ruled that we Jewish folks were finally allowed to donate organs at death, I was at the DMV the very next morning to sign up. Because I believe in the practice- but it had been counter to the Jewish Code of Law (as codified in volumes called the Shulchan Aruch, the Set Table) forever.
Continue reading Zombie Apocalypse?
The last few blogs we discussed planning for the end of our lives. Because we never have a clue when that may come. (Here’s the first post on the series– and here’s the last. Five in total.)
Continue reading Dead as a doorknob?
This question- or is that this argument- comes up for discussion routinely. Why are we not transplanting more organs? How can we more adequately provide organs across the USA? Other countries of the world?
Continue reading Lassos at the ready?
This is not going to be a happy blog. Because we have been let down- big time.
I had known, since I was a young man, that I was not allowed to donate my organs, should I reach an untimely (or timely) death. My religion forbids the defilement of a corpse. Until 1986, when the Chief Sfardi Rabbi (Ovadya Yosef) issued a proclamation…It would be permissible to donate one’s organs to save another’s life- actually, it was an honor for the dead. (The principles are called Pikuach Nefesh [the obligation to save someone in peril] and Kavod Hamet [honoring the dead].). You may not recognize how radical this was- it turned 5000+ years of tradition and rabbinic rulings on its head.
