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OFFICIALS: 111 TERMINALLY ILL PEOPLE ENDED LIVES IN CALIF.

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California health officials said 111 terminally ill people have legally ended their lives since the state’s right-to-die law took effect in 2016.

The data was part of the first report by the California Department of Health since the End of Life Option Act became effective on June 9, 2016. According to the report, between June 9 and Dec. 31, 2016, 191 people who had six months or fewer to live, received life-ending prescripti­ons.

According to the report, only 111 of them took the pills by the end of the reporting period in December.

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