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.

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)
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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

         (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 th 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