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Report: 36 end lives in Death With Dignity’s 1st year

Post by Brad Shannon / The Olympian on March 4, 2010 at 1:07 pm |
March 4, 2010 1:07 pm

Sixty-three people received lethal drug prescriptions from their doctors in the first year of Washington’s Death With Dignity Law and 36 died as a result of ingesting the drugs, a new statistical report by the state Department of Health shows.

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