Delaware Code Title 16. Health and Safety § 2512C. Assumptions and presumptions;  effect on construction of wills, contracts, insurance annuity policies

(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.

(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.