THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1977
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JcHICAGO — The law should ac-
pgflii ce pt that a man dies when his brain
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2. Late in ■HOUSTON — Saying “there was
no photo. . - - . —
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1 jnuging, Jfgrnier wife of Dr. John Hill tes
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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,
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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.
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theologians have accepted the end
of brain function as the indicator of
death, the doctors said.
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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.
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