§ 21-5407 — Assisting suicide

(a) Assisting suicide is:
(1) Knowingly, by force or duress, causing another person to commit or attempt to commit suicide; or
(2) intentionally assisting another person to commit or to attempt to commit suicide by:
(A) Providing the physical means by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide; or
(B) participating in a physical act by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide.
(b) Assisting suicide as defined in:
(1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 3, person felony; and
(2) subsection (a)(2) is a severity level 9, person felony.

Legislative History

L. 2010, ch. 136, § 42; July 1, 2011.