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posted by martyb on Friday June 30 2017, @01:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-would-YOU-do? dept.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has published a report including the number of individuals known to have taken their lives under California's end of life bill. The law requires the CDPH to provide annual reports about the effects of the law. 111 people have died after taking prescribed aid-in-dying drugs from June 9th, 2016 to December 31st, 2016 (subsequent reports will cover full calendar years):

The law — which allows terminally ill adults to obtain life-ending drugs from their doctors — took effect on June 9, 2016. Between then and the end of the year, 191 people received prescriptions under the act and 111 people died after taking prescribed aid-in-dying drugs, according to a report released Tuesday by the California Department of Public Health.

In that time period, a total of 258 people began the end-of-life process under the law, which requires patients to make two verbal requests to their doctors at least 15 days apart.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Sulla on Friday June 30 2017, @01:47PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Friday June 30 2017, @01:47PM (#533426) Journal

    This is an important step in making universal healthcare possible. A Death with Dignity Act (Oregon) or this Right-to-Die are important in establishing that death is just not that big of a deal. OHP has gone so far as to offer patients lethal injection in order to not spend $4000/month on cancer meds.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5517492&page=1 [go.com]

    Now that the dust has settled maybe we should start looking at the value of human life financially, seeing as its not that big of a deal. This woman was old and feeble, nobody really needs to live past 70 anyways, what is 64 but just a hop and a skip from 70? At that age she isn't working and not paying any real taxes, so just a drain on the system. At least we know that the state of Oregon values a human life at less than 4k/month, lets push it as far as possible to decrease the cost of universal healthcare. Afterall, healthcare for everyone is the only humane thing to do.

    And don't try to pull any "but muh republican" crap on me, this is Oregon.

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