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Updated 3/20/26: Oregon’s known complication rate has climbed as high as 12%. It was previously noted as 14%.

By Billy Barvick

Aging with Dignity’s Assisted Suicide Watch has compiled data from every state physician-assisted suicide (PAS) annual report since 1997 – the PAS Data Tracker.  Now, people looking to perform data analysis on PAS don’t need to comb through 90 annual reports, interpret strange designations for diseases, or rely on artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to figure out the difference between “prescribed” and “ingested.” The data is there, clear and organized in an interactive format. Researchers around the country have combed through these data sources before, but to our knowledge, never has it all been in one place for students, researchers, and policy makers to reference.

Our PAS Data Tracker reveals a sobering reality:

• At least 14,446 Americans have died by physician-assisted suicide since 1997. The real number is likely much higher.
• From 2014 to 2024, PAS deaths in the US increased nearly 1000%.
• California has the most PAS deaths out of any state, with over 5,000 deaths in less than a decade. California was also the first state to pass 1,000 PAS deaths in a single year, up 830% from its first year.
• Across America, non-terminal conditions like lupus, complications from a fall, anorexia, and diabetes all qualified people for suicide-affirming care, and there has been an explosion of people included in the ever increasing, but cryptic designation of “other.”
• In states like Oregon that track “known complication rates,” i.e., severe complications like seizures and vomiting while ingesting these experimental, unregulated poisons, incidents have climbed as high as 12%.

The most shocking finding is the utter laxity of state enforcement and reporting efforts, often in violation of state law. Despite statutory requirements, New Mexico has never released an annual report; Montana, where PAS was legalized through a state constitutional ruling, also has never released annual data; and Vermont and Washington D.C. have failed to release their most recent figures.  There also is no comprehensive data on how many violations of state statutes are committed by physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or patients – though we know they exist – which incentivizes unchecked abuse and coercion.[1] Thus, the real number of PAS deaths is almost certainly higher than the number available to the public.

The PAS Data Tracker puts to the lie all the claims that state annual data reports provide an extra level of transparency and oversight, something state legislatures were assured would be provided when suicide-affirming care legislation was approved. Americans deserve an honest accounting of the impact of policies that by design put lives at risk.

[1] Raikin, Alexander. “How America Abandoned Its Suicide Safeguards.” UnHerd, 28 Aug. 2025, unherd.com/2025/08/how-america-abandoned-its-suicide-safeguards/.