Organ Donation After Cardiac Death | by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a (5785)

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Thank you everyone we for joining us uh at the conference again. This has been a fabulous uh for us to host uh a gun revasher and we'll get to hear from him today for pen ultimate here with an organ donation after cardiac death. So this is the last year at the conference tim and I hope the next conference will be with a bigger crowd in your kesh and you're all invited. Uh I think next year in it'll be for free of cost hopefully. And it was a big so And uh to me it was a privilege and you hear us and we should be able to all keep it up and and deal with very serious questions that that uh come up and especially our session today is dealing with what might be if a substantial breakthrough. uh I will not pass this morning. I think to give I don't think this is the right forum and the issue we're dealing with is an extremely sensitive issue and there are many considerations besides the fundamental analysis and therefore what we'll do today is just explain the issue and it's but I will not leave you with a uh this is an issue I need to address with the relevant forums. So, but the sugia is a fascinating one. So, regarding organ donations, I just want to give a brief comment. For many years, the film community was attacked saying you don't donate organs, you're not compassionate, you don't care about people that are dying. But in recent years since we have enabled live kidney donors, the FH

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