Oregon is Killing Extra Individuals in Assisted Suicide Than Ever Earlier than
The 2025 Oregon assisted suicide report stated that 637 lethal poison prescriptions were written under the Oregon assisted suicide law which was up from 609 in 2024 and 566 in 2023.
Tom Jeanne, M.D., MPH, the deputy state health officer and epidemiologist at OHA’s Public Health Division stated that:
“What we’ve been seeing over the last several years is a steady overall increase in prescriptions and deaths among Death with Dignity Act participants,”
The 2025 Oregon report indicated that there were 421 reported assisted suicide deaths in 2024 and 400 in 2025. Due to reporting problems there were likely 450 assisted suicide deaths in 2025.
The problem with inaccurate data.
Similar to previous years the 2025 report updated the data from the 2024 report. The 2024 report stated that there were 376 assisted suicide deaths, but the 2025 report stated that there were 421 reported assisted suicide deaths in 2024. The 2025 report increased the number of 2024 reported assisted suicide deaths by 45 or more than 12%.
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The OHA must have received 45 assisted suicide death reports from 2024 later in 2025. Some people suggest that the Oregon assisted suicide report is published too early for doctors to report all assisted suicide deaths. But that is not the case. The 2024 report was published on March 27, 2025 whereas in years earlier the report was published in late January or early February. Since there is no effective oversight of the law, some doctors are submitting their death reports much later and it is likely that some death reports are never submitted.
The 2025 report indicated that there were 400 reported assisted suicide deaths. I predict that the actual number is around 450 assisted suicide deaths or 12.5% higher.
According to the report:
- 24 (6%) of the 400 DWDA patients who died in 2025 had outlived their prognosis—that is, they lived more than six months after receiving their prescription.
- 94% of the participants were white
- 37 prescription recipients (6%) lived outside Oregon, an increase from 24 (4%) in 2024.
The last point indicates that suicide tourism is increasing in Oregon. There may be more out-of-state assisted suicide deaths than indicated in the report since the Oregon Health Authority has no jurisdicion over deaths that occur outside of Oregon.
As in previous years, the three most frequently reported end‐of‐life concerns were:
- loss of autonomy (89%),
- decreasing ability to participate in activities that made life enjoyable (89%),
- and loss of dignity (65%).
As in previous years, pain and symptom control are not among the top reasons for assisted suicide in Oregon.
There is little oversight of the law and if a doctor did not submit an assisted suicide report, there is no way for the Oregon Health Authority to know.
The data also lacks accuracy since the law does not require third party oversight. Therefore it is impossible to know if the deaths were freely requested or voluntary.
It is important to note that the Oregon Health Authority depends on a self-reporting system. The data is gathered from the reports is submitted by the doctors who prescribed the suicide poison. Concerns with individual cases are “covered up” since the doctors who carry out the death also report the death.
Nothing in the report assures the readers that assisted suicide about choice and autonomy. These laws give doctors the legal right to be involved with killing their patients.
I am working on a deeper analysis of the Oregon 2025 assisted suicide report.
LifeNews.com Note: Alex Schadenberg is the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and you can read his blog here.
