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111 People Have Killed Themselves Under California's Right-to-Die Law

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

takyon writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:38PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 30 2017, @04:38PM (#533546)

    Why? She deserves to go to prison for that. At bare minimum this demonstrates that she didn't test the stunt ahead of time. At an absolute bare minimum she should have shot the book without anybody behind it just to see if it would penetrate at the distance she was going to shoot from.

    Mind you, that's still incredibly reckless, but in this case it probably would have saved his life.

  • (Score: 1) by butthurt on Friday June 30 2017, @05:37PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday June 30 2017, @05:37PM (#533575) Journal

    He had shown her another book that he had shot and the bullet didn't go all the way through, the charging document continued.

    -- http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-woman-accused-of-fatally-shooting-boyfriend-in-fame-seeking-video-prank/431313063/ [startribune.com]

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Friday June 30 2017, @06:21PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday June 30 2017, @06:21PM (#533604) Journal

    She deserves to go to prison for that.

    She deserves to have her guilt or innocence determined by a judge or jury.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @07:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @07:25PM (#533970)

    why, if the dipshit volunteered? it's his right to risk his life. she should get off scot free