Reply To: Why force feed?

Oi! Yekke2, your idiocy continues to astound me. Tosafos say that regarding one who is thrown on a baby, thereby killing it, and are of the opinion that although his role is a passive one, it’s still considered murder. (And R’ Chayyim doesn’t disagree on principle, as he states explicitly; he merely considers the one thrown as not being a murderer at all, but rather a stone in the hands of a murderer.) That has nothing to do with someone not eating, where he’s merely allowing a natural process terminate his life.

Once you mentioned R’ Chayyim, look at the Chazon Ish (I think it’s the second one), applicable here.