{"data":{"id":"us-de/16-del.-c.-2512c","jurisdiction":"us-de","citation":"16 Del. C. § 2512C","heading":"Assumptions and presumptions; effect on construction of wills, contracts, insurance, and annuity policies [For application of this section, see 85 Del. Laws, c. 19, § 3].","body":"(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.","path":["Title 16. Health and Safety","Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health","CHAPTER 25C. End of Life Options [For application of this chapter, see 85 Del. Laws, c. 19, § 3]"],"source_url":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title16/c025c/index.html#2512C","current_through":"2026-08-10 (85 Del. Laws, c. 421, 424)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T23:02:21Z","sha256":"c82f264ccd87530ea1c4a68a76870e625793957772088c01453a1397e8e2088a","source_id":"us-de","stale":true,"prev":"us-de/16-del.-c.-2511c","next":"us-de/16-del.-c.-2513c"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}