Our Care, Our Choice
What is Hawaii’s “Our Care, Our Choice” Act?
The “Our Care, Our Choice” Act authorizes medical aid in dying. The law allows qualified terminally ill, mentally capable adults with six months or less to live the option to request a doctor’s prescription for medication that they could decide to take in their final days or weeks to end unbearable suffering and die peacefully.
Hawaii’s new law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2019.
Hawaii Island presentations by Compassion &Choices outreach volunteers will include strategies for having important conversations with your doctor, options for end-of-life care, and how to access Hawaii’s new medical aid in dying law.
Presentations will be held Oct. 23, 10-11:30 a.m. at the West Hawaii Civic Center council chambers, 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Kailua-Kona; and 4-5:30 p.m. at Tutu’s House, 64-1032 Mamalahoa Highway, Suite 305 in Kamuela.
To register, please call the office of Sen. Lorraine Inouye at 974-4000 ext 67335.
