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New Report Lists 1,235 California Assisted Suicide Deaths in 2025
California’s assisted suicide numbers keep rising not only year by year, but also retroactively as the state repeatedly discovers deaths and prescriptions missing from earlier reports.
SACRAMENTO, CA — California reported 1,235 assisted suicide deaths in 2025, an increase of 11% from the 1,113 deaths ultimately attributed to 2024, while newly released state data also revised upward death totals from several previous years.
The revisions have raised questions about the completeness of California’s assisted suicide reporting. The state’s 2025 report lists 983 deaths for 2023, compared with 884 initially reported and 969 in the following year’s report. Likewise, the number of reported deaths in 2022 rose from 853 in the original report to 899 in the latest data.
Prescription figures have also changed after initial publication. The 2025 report listed 1,839 lethal prescriptions issued during the year, while revising the 2024 total to 1,710 and the 2023 total to 1,418. The latest report also stated that 380 people who received prescriptions in 2025 had an unknown ingestion status.
According to the report, 1,159 people died after ingesting prescriptions issued in 2025, while another 76 died after using prescriptions obtained in previous years. The author argued that repeated upward revisions and hundreds of cases with unknown ingestion status suggest the state’s reported totals may not reflect the full number of assisted suicide deaths.
Previously, the UOJ reported that a federal judge blocked a Michigan law affecting pro-life groups.
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