[Avodah] Pulling the Plug

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:49:36AM -0400, cantorwolberg at cox.net wrote:
:                                                          He said that it is
: acceptable according to most poskim, to attach the ventilator to a
: timer and in that way it would go off whenever it was set for. Am I
: the first person in the Avodah group who has heard this?

The nearest I heard of is that if the machine has to be off for
maintenance or other reasons, it needn't be reconnected. The difference
between doing something that kills and passively allowing death.

See the Tzitz Eliezer's (13:89) analysis of the Rama.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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