Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
According to the report:
- 101 people were known to have died by assisted suicide,
- 13 people received the lethal poison but died a natural death,
- 3 people received the lethal poison but had not died and
- 2 people received the lethal poison and died but the cause of death is unknown.
When the cause of death is unknown, it usually means that no report was submitted. Therefore it may have been an assisted suicide death, but no report was filed.
The assisted suicide lobby is pressuring the New Jersey government to waive the
15-day waiting period and remove the residency requirement. The waiting period
protects people from dying at a low point in their life while the
residency requirement prevents the state from becoming a suicide tourist
destination.
Similar to other jurisdictions, the most common reason for approving death by assisted suicide is cancer (62%). In New Jersey only 3% of the deaths were for "other reasons." The New Jersey report does not indicate what conditions constituted "other reasons" but in some states "other reasons" included diabetes or eating disorders.
Nine different experimental lethal poison cocktails were used in 2022. In 2023, 4 different lethal poison cocktails were used with 96 of 101 people dying by the lethal poison cocktail: “Morphine, Diazepam, Phenobarbital, Amitriptyline, Digoxin, Zofran and Reglan”.
The New Jersey report does not include information about complications, length of relationship with the physician, time between first request and ingestion of the lethal dose, time between ingestion of the lethal dose and unconsciousness or time between ingestion of the lethal dose and death.
The report implies that the deaths were voluntary (self-administered), but the information in the report does not address that subject.
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