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Meir, perhaps if you explained what a dayan is, people might understand
better.  (I know what it is, but I think you'd do it better than I.)

Kat

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From: Peter Hunsberger [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:20:54 -0600
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Subject: Re: FW: UPDATE ON CASE INVOLVING REMOVAL OF FRUM BOY FROM LIFE
SUPPORT POSTED EARLIER ON YWN:


Fair enough, but everything I've ever read on the subject (admittedly
not a lot) leads me to the same conclusion....

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>  I have not done the subject proper justice
>
>
>  And this is where a dayan is c r I t I c a l ly necessary
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> Afraid I don't buy into this line of reasoning.  If I did, I'd also have
to
> believe the converse: that we should not be allowed to play God and decide
> to extend life in the first place.  If we don't have the right to pull the
> plug on the respirator then we don't have the right to put anybody on the
> respirator....???
>

-- 
Peter Hunsberger

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