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  • 111 terminally ill patients took their own lives in first 6 months of California right-to-die law

    06/30/2017 12:09:42 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 105 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 27, 2017 6:05 PM | Soumya Karlamangla
    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...