2020 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety
Chapter 6 - General Provisions
Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment Act
§ 20-6-311. Applicability — Death — Life insurance
(a) A death that results from compliance with a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form does not constitute a suicide, homicide, or abuse, for any reason.
(b)
(1) The execution of a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form does not affect the sale, procurement, or issuance of a life insurance policy or annuity policy.
(2) A life insurance policy or annuity policy shall not be impaired or invalidated if emergency care or life-sustaining treatment is withheld from an insured individual who has executed a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form.
(c) This subchapter does not:
(1) Condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing, euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide; or
(2) Permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying.