Delaware Code § 16-2512C

Assumptions and presumptions; effect on construction of wills, contracts, insurance, and annuity
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policies [For application of this section, see 85 Del. Laws, c. 19, § 3].
(a) A provision in a contract, will, or other agreement, whether written or oral, that would affect whether an individual may make or
rescind a request for medication to end life in a humane and dignified manner, is not valid.

(b) An obligation owing under any currently existing contract may not be conditioned or affected by an individual's act of making or
rescinding a request for medication to end life in a humane and dignified manner.
(c) (1) Nothing in this chapter authorizes a physician, APRN, or any other person to end an individual's life by infusion, intravenous
injection, mercy killing, or euthanasia.
(2) A request for medication to end life in a humane and dignified manner under this chapter, or the fact that medication to end
life in a humane and dignified manner is prescribed or dispensed under this chapter, does not, for any purpose, constitute elder abuse,
suicide, assisted-suicide, homicide, or euthanasia.
(d) The sale, procurement, or issuance of a life, health, or accident insurance or annuity policy, or the rate charged for such a policy,
may not be conditioned upon or affected by an individual's act of making or rescinding a request for medication to end life in a humane
and dignified manner.
(e) A qualified patient's act of self-administering medication to end life in a humane and dignified manner does not invalidate any part
of a life, health, or accident insurance or annuity policy.
(f) A health-care institution, health-care provider, health-care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee
welfare benefit plan, nonprofit hospital service plan, or any other type of direct or indirect provider of health-care benefits or services or
insurer cannot deny or alter health-care benefits otherwise available to an individual with a terminal illness based on the availability of
medication to end life in a humane and dignified manner or otherwise attempt to coerce or require as a condition to receiving care that an
individual with a terminal illness make a request for medication to end life in a humane and dignified manner.

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