Maine: DWD Annual Report 2023
In 63% of cases cancer was the terminal condition reported.
In 63% of cases cancer was the terminal condition reported.
Psychiatrists increasingly open to euthanasia.
Between 2003-2023 there was a 9% year increase in UK residents travelling to Switzerland to have assisted dying.
Of those seeking prescriptions, 66% were cancer patients, 11% suffered neurological disease and 10% heart disease.
As many as 3,423 patients sought euthanasia, a 15% from 2022.
Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board finds that the number of deaths from people accessing VAD rose by 11%.
Report finds that 5.1% of deaths in 2022 were through euthanasia.