Special provisions as to causing death

The general provisions of Title II with respect to causing an event are in their application with respect to the causing of death by harm subject to the following explanations and modifications, namely– (a) the death of a person shall be held to have been caused by harm if by reason of the harm death has happened otherwise or sooner, by however 94 short a time, than it would probably have happened but for the harm. (b) it is immaterial that the harm would not have caused the person’s death but for his infancy, old age, disease, intoxication or other state of body or mind, at the time when the harm was caused. (c) it is immaterial that the harm would not have caused the person’s death but for his refusal or neglect to submit to or seek proper medical or surgical treatment, or but for his negligent or improper conduct or manner of living or of treating the harm, unless it be made to appear that the person acted as he did with the purpose of causing his own death. (d) death shall be held to have been caused by harm if the death be caused by the medical or surgical treatment of the harm, unless such treatment itself amount to murder or