"Qualified person"

Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "qualified person" refers to an individual who has at least one (1) of the following: (1) An advanced chronic progressive illness. (2) An advanced chronic progressive frailty. (3) A condition caused by injury, disease, or illness from which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty: (A) there can be no recovery; and (B) death will occur from the condition within a short period without the provision of life prolonging procedures. (4) A medical condition that, if the person were to suffer cardiac or pulmonary failure, resuscitation would be unsuccessful or within a short period the person would experience repeated cardiac or pulmonary failure resulting in death. As added by P.L.164-2013, SEC.8.