404.845. Death resulting from withholding treatment, not to be suicide or homicide, when. - Missouri Statutes

Death resulting from withholding treatment, not to be suicide orhomicide, when.

404.845. 1. Nothing contained in sections 404.800 to404.865 shall revoke, amend or limit the operation of chapter565, RSMo.

2. If the patient's death results from withholding orwithdrawing life-sustaining treatment in accordance with theterms of the durable power of attorney for health care act, thedeath shall not constitute a suicide or homicide for any purposeunder any statute or other rule of law and shall not impair orinvalidate any insurance, annuity or other type of contract thatis conditioned on the life or death of the patient, any term ofthe contract to the contrary notwithstanding.

(L. 1991 S.B. 148)