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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010: We are upgrading our website and some archived documents may not be immediately available. Please contact Scott Foster at 988-0555 on Oahu if you need information not found here.

WE ARE THE ONLY ORGANIZATION located & working in Hawai`i to see Death With Dignity legislation passed and signed into law. Our history can be read below and numerous articles by and about our revered founders are Here.

Here’s what you can do today to help pass our bill in Hawai`i:

1) SEND US A CHECK. We have not asked for money in several years and the time is now. Every penny counts. Our success will require much money for the needed statewide organizing campaign. Please mail your check to:

Hawai`i Death with Dignity Society
c/o 3050 Kahaloa Place
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96822-1541

Our phone number is 808-988-1708 on Oahu and our email address is hdwds@hawaii.rr.com

2) BE ON OUR EMAIL LIST. If you have never received our emails, please send us your contact information (Name, street/city/state/zip and email address) to hdwds@hawaii.rr.com

IT’S BEEN VERY PAINFUL to observe, first-hand, the results of 8-years of Hawaii’s conservative governor and administration. We routinely receive phone calls from people literally begging for help to die – but other than consoling our suffering friends, we can only send them Derek Humphry’s book and DvD, Final Exit. This is the very reason we must pass our bill (which can be read Here).

Unfortunately, our well-organized opposition, largely funded by the Roman Catholic Church’s Hawai`i Family Forum and The Hawai`i Christian Coalition continue to grow in political strength.

Hawai`i is moving to the right very quickly and we must either grow and become more politically proactive — or “pack it up” as my dad would have said.

Not that Hawaii’s Democrats have much helped us of late. Sadly, many sitting Democrats at our State Legislature are also evangelical Christians or Catholic. Make no mistake about it, through the years the various Catholic Bishops of all Hawai`i and their minions have thwarted our legislation at every turn since our near win in 2002.