Oregon Breaks Assisted Suicide Record

If you build a pro-death law, they will come . . .

Oregon breaks its assisted suicide record

The state of Oregon set another record last year for physician-assisted suicides, and critics continue to decry the practice and the annual report.

Seventy-one people died by means of assisted suicide in 2011, the Oregon Public Health Division reported March 6. A total of 114 people received prescriptions for lethal drug doses during the year. Those figures surpassed the previous highs in the state: 65 deaths and 97 prescriptions, both in 2010. more