Death does not constitute suicide or homicide; effect of declaration on policy of insurance; prohibiting or requiring execution of declaration prohibited as condition for insurance or receipt of health care.

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  4. Death does not constitute suicide or homicide; effect of declaration on policy of insurance; prohibiting or requiring execution of declaration prohibited as condition for insurance or receipt of health care.

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1. Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with NRS 449A.400 to 449A.481, inclusive, does not constitute, for any purpose, a suicide or homicide.

2. The making of a declaration pursuant to NRS 449A.433 does not affect the sale, procurement or issuance of a policy of life insurance or annuity, nor does it affect, impair or modify the terms of an existing policy of life insurance or annuity. A policy of life insurance or annuity is not legally impaired or invalidated by the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an insured, notwithstanding any term to the contrary.

3. A person may not prohibit or require the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care.

(Added to NRS by 1977, 761; A 1991, 636) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 449.650)


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