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164: Acceleration of death
or “You can be responsible for someone's death if you speed up their dying, even if they were already sick.”
You could also call this:

“You can be responsible for someone's death even if it could have been stopped by using the right methods.”

If you do something or fail to do something that causes someone to die, you have killed that person. This is true even if their death could have been stopped if the right actions were taken. The law says you are responsible for the death, regardless of whether it might have been prevented.

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Next up: 166: Causing injury the treatment of which causes death

or “If you hurt someone badly and they die because of how they were treated for that injury, it's still considered killing them.”
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Homicide

165Causing death that might have been prevented

  1. 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.

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  • 1908 No 32 s 180