declaration of death

"Only when there is a declaration of death would it be possible" to execute the will.

If her husband left money in a bank, "she cannot touch that money without a declaration of death," he said.

More than a decade after his death, a declaration of death was issued.

The lawyers seemed to think that in the absence of a body, an official declaration of death might take years.

According to the same source, 23 is the average age at time of death (or declaration of death).

For declarations of death on a missing person see Death in absentia.

Their estates were held in probate pending a declaration of death and charged for administrative expenses.

Therefore, no attempt was made to quantify the period between declaration of death and organ procurement, or to identify complications developed during this time.

I had to marshal my father's assets, I had to file reports for seven years before a declaration of death was issued.

It is hard to believe that a person whose body is kept warm by technology has actually died, but brain-dead is a legal declaration of death.

Because OPOs assume patient management responsibility upon declaration of death, individual clinicians have no influence over events after this time.

Potter orders Klinger to get word to Pierce's father and to dig into the paperwork to correct the erroneous declaration of death.

Following declaration of death, cardiopulmonary resusciation (CPR) is continued until the transplant team arrive.

To the Editor: There will always be a shortage of transplantable organs until public knowledge increases regarding the declaration of death (editorial, Feb. 1).

"Sooner or later," she took a breath, "if ImpSec doesn't find the body, sooner or later there must be a formal declaration of death.

"This declaration of death becomes a way for us to proceed in the absence of a criminal case, which the district attorney has decided is not viable at the moment."

In uncertain cases, beth dins, or rabbinical courts, issue declarations of death for a missing person based on Talmudic principles, said Rabbi Weinreb.

Likewise, for each patient in group II, the specific timing of the brain death examination and nuclear medicine scan result, coinciding with official declaration of death, was recorded.

Cases involving controversies over marriage, parent-children relations, declaration of death, interdiction, and non-contentious matters including property management, inheritance, adoption, and acknowledgement of children, are handled by the Family Division.

But it misses the most important lesson of such literary debates - namely, that the periodic declarations of death to the novel haven't done away with it - they've only fundamentally changed it.

Martha Otterbeck, a clinical social worker at the hospital who counseled the Connallys, said the time between a declaration of death and removal of organs in the operating room is "very, very difficult for families."

'Celebrating Prematurely' Mr. Menendez attacked the Republicans' decision, saying in a news release that they were "celebrating prematurely in their declarations of death" for the proposed New York City commuter tax.

"The Dead Beat," Johnson's fascinating book about the art, history and subculture of obituary writing, explains that a tombstone is the conventional first-sentence appositive sandwiched between the name of the deceased and the declaration of death.

J. David Bleich, an Orthodox rabbi and professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, said that "according to Jewish law, declaration of death requires a total cessation of neurological, cardiac and respiratory function."

To facilitate rapid preservation of cells and tissue, cryonics "standby teams" are available to wait by the bedside of patients who are to be cryopreserved to apply cooling and cardio-pulmonary support as soon as possible after declaration of death.