Montana doesn’t have a specific law on the books, but the state Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that doctors could use a patient’s request for life-ending medication as a defence against criminal charges. “I do know that even within my own family there’s different opinions about whether there should be an option or not ... but we know that we have got to a point in our community that it does make sense to give the patient a choice to request the medication, obtain it and take it, or ultimately change their mind, if they so choose to,” he added. When the law takes effect next year, Hawaii will join five other states—California, Oregon, Colorado, Vermont, and Washington—and the District of Columbia in allowing terminally ill people to request and receive life-ending medication. Moreover, just like all of the proposed bills and assisted suicide laws, the Delaware bill utterly fails to prevent coercion.
Medically assisted suicide became legal in the state of Hawaii.