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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: 2) by takyon on Friday June 30 2017, @02:24PM (2 children)
I'm looking at it again. 258 people started the process, 191 got the drugs, and 111 died. The gap between 258 and 191 is the wait for approval. The 80 gap could be explained in part by people who haven't gotten their affairs in order yet, as well as people who got cold feet. Maybe some of them got the drugs in preparation for dying but have not reached the stage in their terminal illnesses where they would actually want to use it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:34PM (1 child)
Precisely, some of them have the prescriptions, but haven't yet used them. And there's probably some that either died prior to taking them or decided that they couldn't go through with it.
The prescriptions themselves are dangerous, but there's any number of dangerous pills out there, even some over the counter medications are extremely dangerous when abused.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:39PM
This, predominantly you'd think, since we're talking about terminally ill people.