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Below are documents and articles about the halachic and medical issues surrounding organ donation. The HOD Society strongly recommends that readers review at least the first 5 articles, in order to best understand the major issues, especially the debate regarding the moment of death. Please note that not all articles listed below are written by halachic authorities.

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16 entries found.

1. Source Material (Biblical & Rabbinic)
   
   
2. Chief Rabbinate of Israel: Ruling on Organ Donation (1986)
   
   
3. Living Will: Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) (1991)
   
   
4. RCA Resolution (1991)
   
   
5. Living Will: Agudath Israel of America (Agudah)
   For latest version call 212-797-9000
   
   
6. Religion Notes: Ari Goldman (1991)
   
   
7. Confirmation of Neurological Death
   
   
8. Living Will and Power of Attorney In Hebrew for Israel
   
   
9. Uniform Determination of Death Act
   
   
10. National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) (1984)
    
    
11. Defining Death: Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death (1981)
    (President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death, Goverment Printing Office, 1981)
    
    
12. A Definition of Irreversible Coma
    Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical Committe for the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death
    
    
13. Sephardic Ruling on Brain-Death by Rabbi Amar (2008)
    
    
14. Cerebro-Respiratory Death Act (2008)
    
    
15. Israeli law çå÷ äùúìú àáøéí, äúùñ"ç-2008*(2008)
    
    
16. Future Market: the Sale of Human Body Parts(n/a)
    Author: Samuel Jellinek, JD. Published in: Greene Fund for Equity Studies Subject: Equitable Distribution of Human Organs for Transplantation.