If you do something or fail to do something and it causes another person's death, you are responsible for that death. This is true even if the death could have been stopped by doing something about it. You can cause someone's death by doing something or by not doing something when you should have.
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Every one who by any act or omission causes the death of another person kills that person, although death from that cause might have been prevented by resorting to proper means.
