Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:

Medicine 

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Medical Halacha

References: Yoma: 85A ,  Chullin: 21A ,  Nidah: 70B ,  Gittin: 76B  

Description

Doctors in Canada and the US are updating their definitions of death, to focus on brainstem death and to accept "permanent" rather than "irreversible" cessation of function (paving the way for "partial resurrection" for organ donation). How would Halachah view these changes?