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2022 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
Chapter 80 - Physician Orders For Scope Of Treatment
Section 44-80-70. Construction of chapter.
Universal Citation: SC Code § 44-80-70 (2022)
This chapter may not be construed to condone, authorize, or approve suicide, physician-assisted suicide, or euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission of an act to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying. Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures pursuant to an executed POST form and in accordance with this chapter does not, for any purpose, constitute a suicide, homicide, or vulnerable adult abuse or neglect.
HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 89 (H.4004), Section 2, eff May 24, 2019.
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