{"id":3920,"date":"2018-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/dignitas-news-en-272\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:23:46","slug":"our-care-our-choice-house-bill-2739-signed-in-the-u-s-state-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/our-care-our-choice-house-bill-2739-signed-in-the-u-s-state-of-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our Care, Our Choice&#8221; House Bill 2739 signed in the U.S. state of Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Success in the USA: Hawaii Governor David Ige signed the \u2018Our Care, Our Choice&#8217; House Bill 2739. Hawaii thus becomes the seventh U.S. state to allow residents to request and receive a prescription medication so as to die in a peaceful, humane, and dignified manner, under the condition that the person is suffering from a medically confirmed terminal illness with less than six months to live and possessing decisional capacity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&amp;billnumber=2739&amp;year=2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website of the Hawaii State Legislature \/ HB 2739 <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(Link)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitv.com\/story\/37890969\/gov-ige-signs-our-care-our-choice-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Governor Ige signing the Bill <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(Link)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The law comes into effect 1 January 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Success in the USA: Hawaii Governor David Ige signed the \u2018Our Care, Our Choice&#8217; House Bill 2739. Hawaii thus becomes the seventh U.S. state to allow residents to request and receive a prescription medication so as to die in a peaceful, humane, and dignified manner, under the condition that the person is suffering from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[539],"class_list":["post-3920","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-usa-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}