Halacha:

Death and Burial,  Medical Ethics,  Medicine,  Science & Medicine 

Parsha:

Noach,  Re'eh,  Va'etchanan,  Yitro 

References: Shabbat: 88B ,  Beitza: 5B ,  Chullin: 54A ,  Sanhedrin: 85B ,  Bava Batra: 74B  

Description

Text study discussion of permissibility of new methods for posthumous organ retrieval, related to DCD (Donation after Circulatory Death/ donation after cardiac death/non-heartbeating organ donation), and new methods of maintaining organs for transplantation, including analysis of resuscitation/resurrection and the definition of death, particularly in the views of Rav Moshe Feinstein, The Tzitz Eliezer, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rav Asher Weiss, Rav JD Bleich and Rav Hershel Schachter, as well as analysis of how long to wait before touching a goses after death is declared.