The 2022 California assisted suicide report indicates that the number of assisted suicide deaths increased by more than 63% and the number of prescriptions for lethal drugs increasing by 47% from the 2021 report.
As with previous years, the report implies that the deaths were voluntary (self-administered), but the information in the report does not address that subject.
In 2022 there were 853 reported assisted suicide deaths and 1270 lethal cocktail prescriptions written which was up from 522 reported assisted suicide deaths and 863 lethal prescriptions written in 2021.
The report stated that 173 people who were approved for assisted suicide died from their underlying illness or other causes and 294 people received a lethal drug cocktail but their ingestion status is unknown.
When the ingestion status is unknown, the person received the lethal drug cocktail but the California Department of Public Health does not know whether or not the person died by assisted suicide. How many of the 294 people whose ingestion status is unknown actually died by assisted suicide?
Under-reporting of assisted suicide deaths and abuse of the law is covered-up by the reporting system. The California assisted suicide data comes from the reports submitted by the doctors who approved and prescribed the lethal assisted suicide drug cocktail. This self-reporting system makes it is impossible to know when a doctor does not send in a report or abuses the law….
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Doctor facilitated suicide and abortion is integral to the progressive ideologic agenda. Part of the dismantling of Western culture can be seen in real time in places like California, but especially in Oregon where illicit drug use and possession has been decriminalized. They’re trying to do it in Washington state but have been unsuccessful. Self medication in mental illness is just a driver of crime, homelessness and further addiction and worsening of mental illness. They’re finding out in the north west that babies are being exposed to more and more previously illegal substances and at a higher rate than ever before so the answer from the progressives is to kill the children, not interfere with addiction on any meaningful level. Further, efforts to include mental illness as a criteria for doctor facilitated suicide are becoming more common. So without the ability to kill the victims of their policies (haven’t even mentioned immigration), progressives have no where to go. We’ll see more of this especially from West coast state governments.
Contraception leads to abortion which leads to voluntary euthanasia which leads to forced euthanasia. Like it or not, you will be next.
We can do better for those suffering than helping them kill themselves.
In 1949, Arthur Miller wrote the famous
play “Death of a Salesman.”
Today, with progressives touting suicide and euthanasia
as “solutions” to personal and social problems, it’s more like
“Death as a Salesman.”