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the law. In Orthodox Judaism you do not own your body.
You have not got the right to refuse resuscitation. It is
not your's to refuse. The Mormons are also the same way.
You do not -- you inhabit, you are a guest in the body and
the body is God's. Those are just two of the views.
I think most people are very confused about how
they feel about their body on whether they own it or not or
whether it is an it or a them, and yet those matters have
direct bearing on tissue samples, on the consent to
research, on legal issues that are poorly resolved that we
might take up.
And there is a question I have listed here
called the limits of clinical care.
It has something to do with the issue of
progress actually, Zeke, that we talked about before.
There is no question that there has been
enormous progress in the resuscitation of newborns who
previously would have died, in multiple births where
previously there would have been no survivors we now have
the septuplets, and yet we do not have any real idea of
what about the others. What about the kids who did not
come out and go on and become the president? Of their
class of course. And what about the other ones? What has
happened to them? What social resources are used? What