Euthanasia
Warning: This sensitive topic speaks about euthanasia
Divine Code for November 28, 2022
Today: Pages 318-320
Part 1:14 -- 1:15
Killing a mortally sick or injured person or a ''goses'' (the Hebrew term for a dying person who has become moribund and whose death is imminent) is considered murder, and this carries liability to capital punishment. If a victim was close to dying as a result of one person's act of murder, and another person dealt the victim a final blow (e.g. decapitation), both are liable by the court if they intended to kill - the last perpetrator, since he made the final murderous blow, and the first, since his actions would surely have brought death without the actions of the second. (This is ''murder after murder'' in topic 3 above.) However, one who hastens the death of a ''living carcass'' is exempt from capital punishment by a court. (Examples of a ''living carcass'' are one whose body was split in two, or whose back was ripped from behind ''like a fish, or whose thigh with its cavity was removed, or whose neck and most of the surrounding flesh was broken - before the person dies, i.e., while the heart is still beating.)
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