In spite of proponents’ unique approach to legalize it, Hawaii’s ban on doctor-assisted suicide remains in place. Supporters of assisted suicide tried to use a 1909 law that permits the use of remedies not typically authorized for terminally ill patients. However, the reason for that law was to permit the use of then untried and untested remedies for such conditions as leprosy, tuberculosis and a number of other, at that time, totally untreatable conditions.
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“Assisted suicide still a no-go in the Aloha State”
December 29, 2011
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