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Sam2 -“Health: I don’t think removing a ventilator would be murder. Gram Retzicha at worst and probably just an Issur of Lo Sa’amod Al Dam Reiacha”

It could very well be Retzicha! It depends who you hold like:

“The poskim who disagree mostly hold that cessation of breathing constitutes halachic death.

Other poskim hold that cardiac death is the halachic definition of death.”