2015 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 25. HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS
§ 2512 Assumptions and presumptions.

(a) Neither the execution of an advance health-care directive under this chapter nor the fact that health care is withheld from a patient in accordance therewith shall, for any purpose, constitute a suicide.

(b) The making of an advance health-care directive pursuant to this chapter shall not restrict, inhibit nor impair in any manner the sale, procurement or issuance of any policy of life insurance, nor shall it be deemed or presumed to modify the terms of an existing policy of life insurance. No policy of life insurance shall be legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawal of health care from an insured patient, notwithstanding any term of the policy to the contrary.

(c) No physician, health facility or other health care provider, nor any health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan or nonprofit hospital service plan, shall require any person to execute an advance health-care directive as a condition to being insured, or for receiving health care services, nor shall the signing of an advance health-care directive be a bar, except as provided in § 2508 of this title.

(d) [Repealed.]

63 Del. Laws, c. 386, § 1; 64 Del. Laws, c. 204, § 7; 70 Del. Laws, c. 392, §§ 3, 5.;