Posted on 06/30/2017 12:09:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A total of 111 people in California took their own lives using lethal prescriptions during the first six months of a law that allows terminally ill people to request life-ending drugs from their doctors, according to data released Tuesday.
A snapshot of the patients who took advantage of the law mirrors what’s been seen in Oregon, which was the first state to legalize the practice nearly two decades ago. Though California is far more diverse than Oregon, the majority of those who have died under aid-in-dying laws in both states were white, college-educated cancer patients older than 60.
The End of Life Option Act made California the fifth state in the nation to allow patients with less than six months to live to request end-of-life drugs from their doctors.
Physician-assisted deaths made up 6 out of every 10,000 deaths in California between June and December 2016, according to state data. That’s much lower than the 2016 rate in Oregon, where lethal prescriptions accounted for 37 per 10,000 deaths.
But the findings have done little to calm the debate over whether allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medications is acceptable medical practice. …
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I feel sorry for you. You must live in terror of death. Death is a doorway, the soul continues to exist, continues on the journey.
You want to commit suicide, that is your choice. But you have no right for demand that others should “commit suicide” in the form of being killed by the medical profession with government mandate.
There was no reason for them or you to have endured that. I am sorry for you to have had to stood by in those circumstances.
It should not have been so.
I am familiar with drugs that can “turn off” the pain receptors and a host of other options. Not sure why these were not introduced to you and your family members.
Pity not me pity yourself you opt for the long wait of death.
Not a matter of what the state wants it’s a matter of what the suffering dying want.
It’s the state that implements this. The state is not to accommodate “suffering dying” that wish to go against their Maker.
I pity those who fear death, and and angry at those who want others to be killed.
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