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GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
Part II - REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONSTitle II - DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
Chapter 201D - HEALTH CARE PROXIES
Section 201D:12 - Suicide or mercy killing not authorized

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 201D § 12

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Current through Chapters 1 to 249 and Chapters 253 to 255 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 201D:12 - Suicide or mercy killing not authorized

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constitute, condone, authorize, or approve suicide or mercy killing, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act to end one's own life other than to permit the natural process of dying.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 201D, § 12