Section 12. 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.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
Chapter 201d - Health Care Proxies
Section 2 - Appointment of Health Care Agents; Execution of Proxy; Alternate Agents
Section 3 - Eligibility to Serve as Agent
Section 5 - Authority of Agent
Section 6 - Incapacity of Patient; Regained Capacity
Section 7 - Revocation of Proxy
Section 8 - Liability of Health Care Providers and Agents
Section 9 - Liability for Health Care Costs
Section 10 - Coercion; Execution of Proxy
Section 11 - Foreign Proxies; Enforceability
Section 12 - Suicide or Mercy Killing
Section 13 - Pain Alleviation; Comfort Care Procedures
Section 14 - Physicians; Refusal to Honor Proxy
Section 15 - Private Facilities; Refusal to Honor Proxy