Hundreds of mourners gathered at Kfar Etzion, south of Jerusalem, Tuesday, at the Levaya of Leah (Lucy) Dee, one of three victims murdered in the Jordan Valley terrorist shooting attack last Friday. Dee survived the initial attack and was in very serious condition, succumbing to her wounds Monday.
During the funeral, one of Dee’s surviving daughters, Keren, eulogized her mother saying that: “Losing a mother is like losing a life. We worked on our relationship until we became best friends. There is no one to tell us what to do anymore. A hole has been created that cannot be filled. Mom, you were everything.”
Tal Dee, Lucy Dee’s other surviving daughter, said:
“I need you. You are taking care of Maia and Rina now, but who will take care of us?”
Dee’s brother said that his sister had “decided to give back to the community in the way she knew best, by teaching English classes and by cooking for new mothers and volunteers.”
Two days ago, Lee’s 20-year-old daughter, Maia, and her 16-year-old daughter, Rina, were laid to rest at the Kfar Etzion Cemetery.
Dee’s two daughters were killed in Friday’s attack, while Lee was critically wounded, succumbing to her wounds on Monday.
Dee, 48, was an English teacher at the Orot Yehuda Bnei Akiva school in Efrat.
After her death, Dee’s husband, Rabbi Leo Dee, and her three surviving children agreed to donate her organs. Five people have already benefited from the organs, with her heart going to a 51-yr-old woman, her liver to a 25-yr-old woman, a kidney to a 58 year-old man another kidney to a 39-year-old man (Beilinson hospital) and her lungs to a 58 year-old woman (Sheba hospital). Mrs. Dee’s corneas have also been donated and will be transplanted into other people.
Organ transplant is the reason you have to have brain death.
ReplyDeleteDonated hearts must come from a living person. Within minutes of “true death,” is the cessation of circulation and respiration, the organs will begin to die.
This is why, when organs are removed from a donor, the beating heart is always taken last. You cannot get any organs from cadavers. If you’re really dead, then no organs can be extracted. See http://m.truthaboutorgandonation.com/?url=http://www%2Etruthaboutorgandonation%2Ecom%2Faboutdrbyrne%2Ehtml#2861
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ReplyDeleteThat is your "Daas Torah"
And their "Daas Torah" said it was ok, I think if it was your child that needed an organ to survive you also would have gone with his "Daas Torah" and if your answer is "no" then you shouldn't have any children/
You can't take a life to save a life. If someone is "brain dead", they still have life.
DeleteThe definition of death changed when organ donations became possible. This does not make it correct. Some Rabbanim allowed people to receive organs because the organs would have been given anyway. They did not allow people to donate organs - which would mean removing organs before all circulation, respiration and body functions have ceased.
moshiachnow
ReplyDeleteSo if your child would be dying and this is your only hope, you would let her die?
moshiachnow
ReplyDeleteLet me put it to you bluntly
Your 12 year old daughter, Ruchili, is dying in the hospital and needs a heart transplant, Rabbi Dee comes into your daughter's room with you and your wife at her bedside, and says "I'll give you my wife's heart" Are you going to babble in front of your child's bed :
"You can't take a life to save a life. If someone is "brain dead", they still have life. The definition of death changed when organ donations became possible. This does not make it correct."
Will you then turn to your dear Ruchili and say "I'm sorry, Ruchili" you must die now?"But don't you worry we will go on as a family without you, my dear Ruchili ... by by now!"