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Various stories are brought regarding women on their deathbed who gave property to one son and then changed their minds. The rabbis rule debated what the ruling should be – can one change one’s mind or once one gives away all their possessions and subsequently dies, the first statement they made is valid?
The Gemara relates that Rav Amram Chasida's mother had many documents attesting to various loans that were owed to her. On her deathbed, she gave instructions that they should all be given to Rav Amram as a gift. After her death, Rav Amram's brothers came before Rav Nachman and disputed his ownership of the debts on the grounds that he never made a proper act of Kinyan on the documents.
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by Martin Hirschprung…comparing deathbed requests and therapeutic exceptions to informed consent.