HRS §327L-2
How to ask for life-ending medication
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗A capable adult resident with a terminal disease, confirmed by two providers, who wants to die may ask for life-ending medication. They must make two spoken requests at least five days apart and one written request. The main provider must receive all requests directly.
The statute, as written — Oral and written requests for medication; initiated
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Except as otherwise provided in section 327L-11(c), an adult who is capable, is a resident of the State, and has been determined by an attending provider and a consulting provider to be suffering from a terminal disease, and who has voluntarily expressed the adult's wish to die, may, pursuant to section 327L-9, submit: (1) Two oral requests, a minimum of five days apart; and (2) One written request, for a prescription for medication that may be self-administered for the purpose of ending the adult's life in accordance with this chapter. The attending provider shall directly, and not through a designee, receive all three requests required pursuant to this section.
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