{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-752.1024","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.1024","heading":"Development and submission of recommendations to legislature; effective date of section.","body":"Sec. 4.\n\nWithin 15 months after the effective date of this act, the commission shall develop and submit to the legislature recommendations as to legislation concerning the voluntary self-termination of life. In developing these recommendations, the commission shall consider each of the following:\n\nCurrent data concerning voluntary self-termination, including each of the following:\n\nThe current self-termination rate in the state, compared with historical levels.\n\nThe causes of voluntary self-termination, and in particular each of the following:\n\nThe role of alcohol and other drugs.\n\nThe role of age, disease, and disability.\n\nPast and current Michigan law concerning voluntary self-termination, including the status of persons who assist a patient's self-termination, and in particular the effect of any relevant law enacted during the 86th Legislature.\n\nThe laws of other states concerning voluntary self-termination, and in particular the effect of those laws on the rate of self-termination.\n\nThe proper aims of legislation affecting voluntary self-termination, including each of the following:\n\nThe existence of a societal consensus in the state on the morality of the voluntary self-termination of life, including the morality of other persons assisting a patient's self-termination.\n\nThe significance of each of the following:\n\nThe attitudes of a patient's family regarding his or her voluntary self-termination.\n\nThe cause of a patient's act of self-termination, including apprehension or existence of physical pain, disease, or disability.\n\nWhether to differentiate among the following causes of voluntary self-termination:\n\nPhysical conditions, as distinguished from psychological conditions.\n\nPhysical conditions that will inevitably cause death, as distinguished from physical conditions with which a patient may survive indefinitely.\n\nWithdrawing or withholding medical treatment, as distinguished from administering medication, if both are in furtherance of a process of voluntary self-termination.\n\nWith respect to how the law should treat a person who assists a patient's voluntary self-termination, whether to differentiate based on the following:\n\nThe nature of the assistance, including inaction; noncausal facilitation; information transmission; encouragement; providing the physical means of self-termination; active participation without immediate risk to the person assisting; and active participation that incurs immediate risk to the person assisting, such as suicide pacts.\n\nThe motive of the person assisting, including compassion, fear for his or her own safety, and fear for the safety of the patient.\n\nThe patient's awareness of his or her true condition, including the possibility of mistake or deception.\n\nThe relevance of each of the following:\n\nThe legal status of suicide.\n\nThe legal status of living wills.\n\nThe right to execute a durable power of attorney for health care, as provided in section 496 of the revised probate code, Act No. 642 of the Public Acts of 1978, being section 700.496 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.\n\nThe common-law right of a competent adult to refuse medical care or treatment.\n\nConstitutional rights of free speech, free exercise of religion, and privacy, and constitutional prohibitions on the establishment of religion.\n\nThe most efficient method of preventing voluntary self-terminations, to the extent prevention is a proper aim of legislation. In particular, the commission shall consider each of the following:\n\nThe costs of various methods of preventing voluntary self-terminations, including the use of any of the following:\n\nPublic health measures, such as crisis therapy and suicide counseling services.\n\nTort law.\n\nCriminal law, including the desirability of criminalizing suicide or attempted suicide.\n\nCivil sanctions, including the denial of inheritance and requirements of community service and mandatory counseling.\nvarious methods of preventing voluntary self-terminations, including the use of any of the following:\n\nPublic health measures, such as crisis therapy and suicide counseling services.\n\nTort law.\n\nCriminal law, including the desirability of criminalizing suicide or attempted suicide.\n\nCivil sanctions, including the denial of inheritance and requirements of community service and mandatory counseling.\n\nThe likely effect of any of the methods listed in subparagraph ( i ) on the self-termination rate, and in particular the probability that a particular method might cause the self-termination rate to increase.\n\nThe impact of any of the methods listed in subparagraph ( i ) on the practice of medicine and the availability of health care in the state.\n\nWhether current state law is adequate to address the question of voluntary self-termination in the state.\n\nAppropriate guidelines and safeguards regarding voluntary self-terminations the law should allow, including the advisability of allowing, in limited cases, the administering of medication in furtherance of a process of voluntary self-termination.\n\nAny other factors the commission considers necessary in developing recommendations for legislation concerning the voluntary self-termination of life.\n\nThis section shall take effect February 25, 1993.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 752","Act Act-270-of-1992"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-752-1024","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"2fd26d69769f6cc8ebf372ce2e691e4fdca29721a5530dda25fe9ea4f5332ad6","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-752.1023","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-752.1025"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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