South Carolina Statutes

§ 44-80-70 — Construction of chapter.

South Carolina § 44-80-70
JurisdictionSouth Carolina
Title 44HEALTH
Ch. 80PHYSICIAN ORDERS FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT

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S.C. Code Ann. § 44-80-70 (2026).

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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.

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