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Sam2 -“(at least in the places that I asked lawyers and doctors about) to have a card that says that organs can only be taken after cardiac death. And I already amended to say that I only did this in America,”

Knowing a lot about law, but even more about medicine -I’m sorry to say -I think you were duped by this/these guy(s). So let’s say your card says only after cessation of the heart -what are the consequences if they don’t listen? Do you think the Gov. would consider this murder or any of the lower classifications such as manslaughter? Of course not! Do they get jail time? I highly doubt it. It’s probably only a tort and how are you going to prove they took it before heart death? From people in the room testifying against them when they are the only people in the room? So having such a card in reality means absolutely nothing!

It’s even possible that unscrupulous people would try and take organs from non-organ donors, but this is very unlikely because in this case the Gov. would probably come down very hard.

If you hold that the death criteria acc. to Halacha is heart and/or breathing stoppage -there is no Mokom whatsoever to Meikel to be an organ donor. The fact that you keep making up these scenarios to fit your Shiita is very problematic!

I’m sorry to say Sam, but your posts here are bordering on Megaleh Ponim B’torah Shelo K’halacha!