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209. 10. . Ibid.

. Ibid., 312.

. Ibid., quoting G. Kelly, Medico-Moral Problems, 1958, p. 129.

. Conroy, 464 A.2d at 313.

. President’s Report.

. Brophy v. New Eng. Sinai Hosp., Inc., 497 N.E.2d 626(Mass. 1986).

. Ibid., 628.

. Ibid., 628-629.

- Ibid., 638. There is an irony in this decision and an interesting difficulty

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The Ethics of Choice; A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die, p. 147.

Ronald Dworkin , Lifes Dominions: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom, New York, 1993, p. 84.

Ibid., 215.

Ibid., 199.

President's Report.

In re Conroy, 464 A.2d 303(N.]. 1983).

Ibid., 304. Organic brain syndrome is a“syndrome resulting from diffuse or local impairment of brain tissue function.” Melloni’s Illustrated Medical Dic­tionary, 1979, p. 347.

Conroy, 464 A.2d at 304.

Ibid., 305.

with the moral and legal conundrum created by it. New England Sinai Hos­pital, a Jewish Hospital, and its ethics committee found itself bound by their interpretation of the restrictions in Jewish law which resisted removing the life support equipment. By acceding to the wishes of the family to move Paul Brophy to another facility they sanctioned the violation of the Noa­chide laws which are legally binding on non-Jews by Jewish law. The Rab­ bis held that while Jews are subject to the full panoply of Biblical legislation, all non-Jews are obligated to observe six basic humane regulations.“Man may not worship idols; he may not blaspheme God ; he must establish courts of justice; he may not kill; he may not commit adultery; and he may not rob” Plaut, a note 112, at 71. By passively permitting the staff of another medical center to violate the proscription not to kill, the hospital may be thought to have facilitated a violation of that basic Noachide law by a gen­tile. See Michael Broyde , Assisting In A Violation of a Noachide Law, 8 JEwisH L. Ass’N Stub. 11(1996).

UNI. RIGHTS OF THE TERMINALLY ILL Act, 9B U.L.A. 609(1987).

. Ibid.,§ 7.

Ibid. “Appeals Exhausted, Firefighter to be Moved to Die,” Associated Press , Oct. 14, 1986.

.“Comatose Man Dies,”| Jewsday, Oct. 14, 1986 at 14. . Bouvia v. Superior Court, 225 Cal. Rptr. 297(1986). . Ibid., 299. . Ibid., 300. 3. Ibid., 298. 229,

Ibid., 298-299.