California just posted a record: 1,235 assisted suicide deaths in 2025. That’s up from 495 in 2020 — almost 150% in five years.

Since the law passed in 2016, 6,758 people have died this way. In 2025, they also wrote 1,839 lethal prescriptions — hundreds more than the deaths they counted.

The state’s own report says the top reasons were not mainly uncontrolled pain:

• 96% — less able to do things that make life enjoyable
• 95% — loss of autonomy
• 84% — loss of dignity

Nearly 93% were 60 or older, and most were already on hospice.

They call it compassion. The numbers say it’s becoming ordinary.

When a society starts treating frailty as a reason to die, the sick stop being patients and start being a cost.

Life is not a problem to be solved when it gets hard.


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