title: [Death and the moment of death: several legal aspects].
abstract: None of the important legal issues concerning the moment of death and re-animation procedures can be solved by means of simplistic legal formulae. In adjudicating on a particular problem, a court of law will have to be guided by prevailing religious, societal and medical attitudes. But as jurists we must strongly support the individual's "right to die".
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001926:Brain Death; D003643:Death; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011309:Preservation, Biological; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D013019:South Africa; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014481:United States
vernacular_title: Dood en die oomblik van dood: enkele regsbeskouinge