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(1996); Ky. Rev. STAT. ANN.§446.400(Banks-Baldwin 1997); LA. Rev. STAT. ANN. § 9:111(1997); N.]J. STAT. ANN.§ 26:6A-3(1997); N.C. GEN. STAT.§ 90-323 (1996); PR. Laws ANN. tit 18,§ 731a(1994); Tex. HEALTH& SAFETY CODE ANN. § 671.001(West 1997); Va. Cope ANN.§ 54.1-2972(Michie 1997). In five states, despite inaction by the state legislature, the courts have determined death to occur in a manner consistent with the Uniform Determination of Death Act. See State v. Fierro, 603 P.2d 74(Ariz. 1974); In re Longeway, 549 N.E.2d 292 (Il. 1990); Commonwealth v. Golston, 366 N.E.2d 744(Mass. 1977); People v. Eulo, 472 N.E.2d 286(N.Y. 1984); In re Bowman, 617 P.2d 731(Wash. 1980).
- In decisions where a court could not find nor apply a definition of brain death, the courts have generally been willing to uphold the conviction of an accused that caused the brain death of a victim. See Commonwealth v. Golston, 366 N.E.2d 744(Mass. 1977), cert. denied, Golston v. Massachusetts, 434 U.S. 1039(1978).
. Felix Frankfurter ,“Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes,”Colum. L Rev. 1947, vol. 47, pp- 527, 529.
. Yoma 83a.
. Yoma 85a.
. Yad, Hil. Shabbat 2.19.
. Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim, 330.5.
- J. David Bleich, Time of Death in Jewish Law, New York , 1991.
. Fred Rosner ,“On Death and Dying,” Assia, Jan. 1991, p. 42.
. Ibid.
. President's Report.
50.“Completely and irreversibly” conforms with the“Report of the Ad Hoc
Committee of Harvard Medical School .” 51. 151. Tanhumim, 1986, vol. 7, p. 187; Yoel Jakobovitz,“Brain Death and Heart Transplants, ” Tradition, Summer 1989, p. 24. 52. P. Byrne et al., Brain Death —An Opposing Viewpoint, 242 JAMA 1985(1979). 53. M.D. Tendler, Reply to Letter on Jewish Law and the Time of Death, 240 JAMA 109(1978). . Ibid. . Ibid. . Aaron Soleveichik, Jewish Law and Time of Death, 240, JAMA 109(1978). . Ibid. . N.J. STAT. ANN.§26:6A-3(1997) N.J. STAT. ANN.§26:6A-5(1997)(religious exemption clause). . Sokobin, Op. Cit. ee oe . Peter Singer , Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics, New York , 1994, Ibid., 63. . Jakobovits, Op. Cit. . Singer, Op. Cit., p. 11. es: . Derek Humphry , Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, Boston , 1991. . Ibid., 180. . Ibid., 13. . Potter, Op. Cit. . Cruzan v. Dir., Mo . Dep’t of Health, 497 U.S. 261, 270(1990).