The 2023 Colorado assisted suicide report indicates that assisted suicide poison prescriptions and deaths have continued to rise every year since legalization.
Even though the number of assisted suicide deaths is continually increasing [,] Colorado Governor Gary Polis signed Senate Bill 24-068 on June 5 to expand their State assisted suicide law. Nearly every state that has legalized assisted suicide has expanded their law.
The Colorado assisted suicide report indicated that in 2023 there were 389 lethal poison prescriptions written, which was up by more than 22% from 318 in 2022, 218 in 2021 and 185 in 2020.
