30.06.2017
The report analyzes statistics only through December 31 of 2016, so its numbers understate use of the law to date. Last year, the state reported 2014 people who received prescriptions for life-ending drugs, 133 of whom died. Dan Diaz, the husband of right to die advocate Brittany Maynard , called the data "a testament" to his late wife's "voice and advocacy that those 111 individuals had the ability to stay at home, under the care of their own medical team, and be surrounded by friends ...