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§ 44-80-70 — Construction of chapter.

South Carolina·Title 44 HEALTH·Ch. 80 PHYSICIAN ORDERS FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT
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.

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Legislative History

HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 89 (H.4004), SECTION 2, eff May 24, 2019.

Nearby Sections

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§ 44-80-10
Definitions.
§ 44-80-100
POST form effective until revoked or new form executed; annual review and update.
§ 44-80-110
APRN may create, execute, and sign POST form under certain circumstances.
§ 44-80-120
PA may create, execute, and sign POST form under certain circumstances.
§ 44-80-20
Department's responsibilities relating to POST form.
§ 44-80-30
POST form must be uniform document; information included.
§ 44-80-40
POST form deemed valid expression of patient's wishes; compliance.
§ 44-80-50
Revocation.
§ 44-80-60
Immunity from civil and criminal liability.
§ 44-80-70
Construction of chapter.
§ 44-80-80
Execution of POST form; affect on life insurance policy.
§ 44-80-90
No presumption of patient's intent in absence of POST form; decisions regarding life-sustaining procedures; patient's wishes.
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