Commentary on “Slow Euthanasia”

death occurs ... at eleven o'clock instead of twelve o'clock, or even on Monday instead of Tuesday, no people of common sense would say, "Oh, the doctor caused her death." They would say the cause of her death was the illness or the injury, or whatever it was, which brought her into the hospital, and the proper medical treatment that is administered and that has an incidental effect of determining the exact moment of death, or may have, is not the cause of death in any sensible use of the term (1).