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.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 201D, § 12
Suicide or mercy killing
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