Transcription of Oregon Death with Dignity Act
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Oregon Death with Dignity Act
PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISIONO regon Death with Dignity Act2020 Data Summary2020 2 Acknowledgments | Oregon Death with Dignity ActAcknowledgmentsReport written by: Public Health Division, Center for Health StatisticsDate: February 26, 2021 For more information, see: : Death with Dignity Act | Executive summaryExecutive summaryThe Oregon Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) allows terminally ill Oregonians who meet specific qualifications to end their lives through voluntary self-administration of a lethal dose of medications prescribed by a physician for that purpose. The Act requires the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to collect information about the patients and physicians who participate in the Act and to publish an annual statistical report. In 2020, 370 people were reported to have received prescriptions under the DWDA.
(Figure 2). In all, eight patients (3.3%) outlived their prognosis (i.e., lived more than six months after their prescription). Participation summary and trends Figure 2: Summary of DWDA prescriptions written and medications ingested in 2020, as of January 22, 2021 370 people had prescriptions written during 2020 67 did not ingest medication and
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