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CA Legalizes Physician-Assisted Suicide for Terminally Ill Patients

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Written by  PLP News

Beginning in 2016, physicians may provide lethal prescriptions to mentally competent adults who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness that is expected to kill them within six months. So reports the Los Angeles Times.

The bill that California governor Jerry Brown signed to make physician-assisted suicide legal is called the End of Life Option Act, and it was modeled after a similar law in Oregon. In that state, 752 patients have used lethal prescriptions to bring about their deaths in the last 17 years.

Read the full article from the Los Angeles Times.

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