410 ILCS 22/100: Construction.

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

(a) Nothing in this Act authorizes a physician or any other person, including the qualified patient, to end the qualified patient's life by lethal injection, lethal infusion, mercy killing, homicide, murder, manslaughter, euthanasia, or any other criminal act.

(b) Actions taken in accordance with this Act do not, for any purposes, constitute suicide, assisted suicide, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide, murder, manslaughter, elder abuse or neglect, or any other civil or criminal violation under the law.