21-5407.
Assisting suicide.
(a) Assisting suicide is:
(1) Knowingly, by force or duress, causing another person to commit or attempt to commit suicide; or
(2) intentionally assisting another person to commit or to attempt to commit suicide by:
(A) Providing the physical means by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide; or
(B) participating in a physical act by which another person commits or attempts to commit suicide.
(b) Assisting suicide as defined in:
(1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 3, person felony; and
(2) subsection (a)(2) is a severity level 9, person felony.
History:
L. 2010, ch. 136, § 42; July 1, 2011.
Notes of Decisions
Hodes & Nauser, MDs v. Stanek, 551 P.3d 62 (Kan. 2024).
“72-6262[a]); assisted suicide (K.S.A. 21-5407[a][2]); self- administration of medication (K.”
State v. Euler, 492 P.3d 1147 (Kan. 2021).
“" See K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 21-5408; K.S.A. 2020 Supp.”
State v. Perez (Kan. 2017).
· cites it 2× “K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 21-5407 provides that assisting suicide is: "(1) Knowingly, by force or duress, causing another person to commit or attempt to commit suicide; or "(2) intentionally assisting another person to commit or to attempt to commit suicide by: (A) Providing the…”
Stockwell v. State (Kan. Ct. App. 2017).
“Kansas law criminalizes assisting suicide, see 9 K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 21-5407, and family members are even allowed to bring a civil action to prevent a possible assisted suicide and to collect damages.”
State v. Euler (Kan. 2021).
“" See K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 21-5408; K.S.A. 2020 Supp.”
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