Posted on 03/17/2023 8:34:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
* Record numbers ended their lives under Oregon's assisted-dying scheme
* They include at least three non-resident 'death tourists', officials said
* Critics say America is on a 'slippery slope' to Canada's euthanasia free-for-all
Record numbers of people ended their lives in Oregon last year in America's most advanced doctor-assisted suicide program, which now lets out-of-state 'death tourists' get lethal drug cocktails on the West Coast.
Last year, 431 people received fatal prescriptions under the state's Death With Dignity Act (DWDA), and 278 people used them to end their lives, Oregon Health Authority said in its annual report.
That's a jump from 383 scripts and 238 deaths the previous year.
The 19-page report is the first time Oregon has recorded the non-residents who travelled to end their lives on the West Coast, under last year's controversial expansion of the scheme.
Officially, three out-of-staters ended their lives in Oregon last year.
But officials say the real number could be much higher, as doctors do not have to record a patients' residency status before inking their scripts.
The new numbers come amid growing concerns that Oregon and other US states are liberalizing assisted-suicide programs too quickly and following the example of Canada, where 10,064 people were euthanized in 2021.
Lois Anderson, executive director of Oregon Right to Life, a campaign group, said doctors were increasingly writing fatal scripts for patients they had known in some cases for only a few days.
'The physicians providing these deadly prescriptions hardly know their patients and are often abandoning them in the last moments of their lives,' said Anderson.
'They have increasingly become absent even when the lethal drugs are ingested.
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Where to go on your next vacation? Head to Oregon. It’ll be the last vacation you’ll ever need to take.
People are just dying to go there.
One thing conspicuously missing from that graph. Terminal illness.
A Ficticious Quote that has probably been recently thought about by the Oregon Tourism Committee:
“That ‘Assistance’ Business is BOOMING! Too bad we can’t openly advertise it more as a FYI Tourist Fact List.”
That suicide craphole, Oregon, is starting to make the “Heaven’s Gate” Hale Boppers and the Jim Jones Guyana 900 look bad.
This is a good program for Democrats.
Waste of money to invest in this. Its a dying business.
One might suggest that someone who voted (D) should do this, but would not matter as their votes would still count for decades.
The bloodlust of the left will NEVER be satisfied.
It is evil and Satanically driven to its very core.
“One might suggest that someone who voted (D) should do this, but would not matter as their votes would still count for decades.”
Seems like this is getting very popular in Democrat states.
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