THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1977 Page 3 ?W' United Press International JcHICAGO — The law should ac- pgflii ce pt that a man dies when his brain |j t , s s j x \cw 'lork doetors said in pus renre K weeks Journal of the American . Wednel&fc' 1 Assotiation - m 216A of I # Feared mm rain decides death le election ants all her life: mill’s ex-wife goodwill Applica- e Student | must 0 - ■ United Press International 2. Late in ■HOUSTON — Saying “there was no photo. . - - . — i. . » - rfver a time I wasn't fearful of him, 1 jnuging, Jfgrnier wife of Dr. John Hill tes Tsonalitv 134. Men m "SS ice of in- ould he have provided long term pied Monday the plastic surgeon ■mitted killing his first wife be- ■use she refused him a divorce. ■ Ann Kurth, who became the sec ond Mrs. Hill following an extra- Larital affair with the doctor, di- vorced him after nine months of arriage because she said he tried to kill her on several occasions. I i BA detailed account of Kurth’s life u ? St |vith Hill was subsequently pub- Houston.|hed ^ a paperback book, but the Ie Co pry considering a $7.b million , ni . liongful death suit against oil mil- l . ‘ onaire Ash Robinson was not al- hen °r )wec ^ t() ^ eai ^ el testimony in the Vl P r j ac kt’d courtroom. e r , re Robinson is the target of the suit jT 'i.n rought by Hill’s third wife, Connie e 111 ' lill, his grandson, Robert Ashton fill, 17, and the doctor’s mother, firs. Myra Hill. They claim Robin- pn bought Hill’s death for $25,000 ti avenge the death of Joan Robin- Ban Hill, the doctor’s first wife and Hie oilman’s only daughter. ■ Joan Robinson Hill died March ■9, 1969, of a mysterious virus. Hill as shot to death Sept. 24, 1972, in e foyer of his colonial mansion. Kurth was subpoenaed to testify ■cause Robinson s defense is trying show Hill’s shady character would lave prevented a long or happy narriage with Connie Hill, a rule on Id be ad- nufactur- plan wements itsidethe go. A re- ii a study ament of estimates average w routes, however, use Con- yond the <0 lined into ew Delhi ions were i’s engine e impact, and it ap- d >el peace •national, for civil and tor- give any to Betty d Peace peace in led k leader damage ‘ss says- old Biko i-ess said fhe gov- • release delayed is death national Jy since Winds )s. LOW Eddie Dominguez 66 Joe Arciniega ’74 The principal reason for deciding that a person is dead should be based on a fundamental understand ing of the nature of man,” the doc tors said. “Without a brain, the body be comes the convenient medium in w hich the energy-requiring states of organs run down and the organs de cay. These residual activities do not confer an iota of humanity or per sonality.” Some states still define death in other ways or fail to provide uniform definition, leading to complex legal questions about medical treatment. dilated pupils, and persistence of these findings over a 24-hour period in the absence of intoxicants or hypothermia.” The doctors also reasoned that the concept of death when the brain stops functioning does not conflict with either Orthodox Jewish nor Roman Catholic dogma. The Orthodox Jewish position al lows a distinction between cell life and the total life of an individual. By that definition, “there is no religious imperative to continue to use a re spirator... in an otherwise dead pa tient.” We are convinced that society now has sufficient philosophical cer tainty... to use destruction of the brain as an indicator that the person has died,” the team said. In Roman Catholic thought, the primary concept of death is separa- The accepted definition of brain death was worked out at Harvard Medical School in 1968. It includes: Unreceptivity, unresponsiveness, absence of spontaneous movements and breathing, absent reflexes, fixed tion of the soul from the body. Since that event cannot be observed, theologians have accepted outward signs such as the end of heartbeats and breathing as marking death. ram WARE ch©oSe. eitlyt.Tr r oT dr 4«93/v£ -^looKof ot\e ity’ttel / saw .for deliverb*for7 7! TOWW ? COUNTRY CENTER BLETCDEe CDEfijee JR. SHOP SIZES 3-13 has Racks and Racks of: , E sses <$> °^es OBI dresses Besses 3801 E. 29th 846-2940 Town & Country Shopping Center While there is no consistent Pro testant position, many Protestant theologians have accepted the end of brain function as the indicator of death, the doctors said. The Battalion Classified 845-2611 BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION’S LEADING AUDIO DEALER CUSTOM Inancial care now being asked for as lamages. State District Judge Arthur ^shei ruled Kurth’s testimony on he itical points violated confiden- ality provision between husband nd wife under Texas law. Kurth told the court in testimony >r the record but not for considera- ion by the jury that Hill confessed ow he killed Joan moments before ie crashed their car into a bridge ibutment. He said she would never give fim a divorce and that was the only ay to terminate the marriage, she old W.Robert Brown, Robinson’s ittorney. He described to me all the nings he had done, she said. ”He ®d he had grown cultures from :Ver y kind of human excrement and had given them to her injected ’ cream puffs).” He said she was really sweet ibout it. He gave her mysteclin (a bug) and from then on it was just a natter of time.” Kurth said Hill admitted the •bain of events during a 2 a. m. drive one 30, 1969. She said he became *pset about her questioning his conduct during a polygraph exam- 'nation in which he allegedly cleared himself of any involvement. He was agitated because I ques- 'oned something he had done, ” she said. She said Hill drove by the horse mm his deceased wife operated and u , That s where someone lives w o doesn t live anymore. . . And , en the car wrecked. . . He crashed J out 45 or 50 miles per hour into e concrete bridge abutment on m y side of the car. . . He pulled a ^ynnge out of his pocket and turned n tried to aim it at me. He ap peared to be insane. He was like a ma nian. . , He pulled out another • He tried the same thing t P n ,: • • I begged him not to do a > she said during direct exam ination. sa id she exited the car “out the time another automobile ? n t ^ e SG ene. She then ac- Hill to a hospital where y loth reeveived treatment. ■■■■ •yAliw"’^ .... Bftlri . 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