MAID Noncompliance Leads to Murder Investigation

All U.S. MAID laws require that the patient self-administer the medications (typically DDMA-Ph). When someone else administers the medications, that is not MAID. Instead, that is assisted suicide which remains criminally prohibited in all U.S. jurisdictions including those that permit MAID. 

That may have happened in Honolulu. Police are investigating the death of an 88-year-old woman in October as a murder because the attending physician assisted in administering the prescribed dose. And the woman may have also withheld or withdrawn her consent to that administration.