Euthenasia

[Helm]

if you 'pull a plug' that presupposes there's complicated machinery that was up to then plugged in, keeping nature from taking it's course.

However, unless I didn't understand correctly, Blanco's distinction is moot.

Left to a natural environment, a man with two broken feet will surely perish as well, like a man with cancer will die of natural causes if left alone as surely as a man with no higher brain function will. Dogs will eat them or something. Just because you do not DIRECTLY kill or not kill them (or save them) does that mean you're not responsible? If you don't directly put effort towards killing someone, but they still die, is that ok, then? Because if it is, we can just solve all cases where euthanasia is discussed, by just stopping to feed these people. They'll die by starvation on their own, us having directly done nothing to kill them.