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

Physician-assisted deaths made up 6 out of every 10,000 deaths in California between June and December 2016, according to state data. Thatís much lower than the 2016 rate in Oregon, where lethal prescriptions accounted for 37 per 10,000 deaths. But the findings have done little to calm the debate over whether allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medications is acceptable medical practice.