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=Hawaiian Assisted Dying=

On April 5th 2018 Hawaii's Governor, David Ige signed the Our Care, Our Choice Act into law. The Act allows doctors to prescribe life ending medication for terminally ill patients patients on request.. Hawaii became the 7th state in the United States of America to legalise assisted dying.

History
Hawaiian activists had been working with legislators for 20 years to pass the bill.. In 1996, the Governor, Ben Cayetano convened the Blue Ribbon Committee on Living With Dignity to examine the issue of physician assisted suicide.

On March 30th (date might be wrong) the bill passed the senate 23 votes for to 2 votes against.

A group of activists comprising church and community leaders delivered a petition containing 18,000 signatures against the bill to the governor David Ige. The petition outlined concerns that concerns raised by the medical community and disabled rights community were not taken into account.