[Avodah] assisted suicide

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

I referred to
> the case of "removing an impediment". Rama YD 339:1 explains
> that this is not a maaseh at all ... and it bothers me very
> much that we should be allowed to do that.

R' Shmuel Weidberg suggested:
> I don't think that you will find that it is MUTAR to remove
> an impediment, only that you are POTUR if you do so.

On the contrary, I've seen many places which do quote this Rama in the full "mutar" sense, not merely in the "potur aval assur" sense. Just one example would be Artscroll's "Mourning in Halacha" by Rabbi Chaim Nechemia Goldberg page 43, note 27.

Akiva Miller
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