New York – A Brooklyn man died three weeks after a hospital declared him dead against the wishes of his Orthodox Jewish family.
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Yechezkel Nakar’s heart stopped beating Tuesday, creating consensus on his death. But 21 days earlier, his family disagreed with New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s decision to issue him a death certificate.
According to the New York Post, Nakar had a stroke after being admitted to the hospital. Doctors at the hospital declared him brain dead on May 31, during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, and issued an electronic death certificate. He was then transferred, on life support, to Maimonides Medical Center.
For religious reasons, Nakar’s wife, Sarah, objected to her husband being taken off life support. She filed a lawsuit against the hospital asking the court to rescind the death certificate so she could file insurance claims for his treatment.
No ruling on the lawsuit was made before Nakar’s death.
Interesting.
Asking for a ruling from a secular court not on secular death but religious death. So that they could have secular medical insurance for what, in a secular view, is keeping a corpse on life support.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet. I feel for his family, these last weeks must have been terrible for them.
BDE If they use the deatj certificate from Maimonedes, maybe it will help clear some things up. After all, can a person really die twice??
Maybe it is just like Silverstein in the twin towers, to be able to collect twice on the insurance policies after all he did die twice.