New Zealand law explained for everyone
If you hurt someone badly enough that they need treatment, and they die because of that treatment, you are responsible for killing them. This is true even if the treatment was given properly and with good intentions. The law sees it this way because your actions led to the person needing treatment in the first place. The injury you caused must have been dangerous enough that it could lead to death. It doesn’t matter if the immediate reason for the person’s death was the treatment they received - you are still considered to have killed them.
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or “Murder is when someone purposely kills another person or causes severe harm that leads to death, even if by accident or for another reason.”Every one who causes to another person any bodily injury, in itself of a dangerous nature, from which death results, kills that person, although the immediate cause of death be treatment, proper or improper, applied in good faith.