Oregon patient suffers five-day lingering death by assisted suicide as cases soar in US state

The latest US government report on assisted suicide in Oregon has revealed that rates have increased by 20 per cent in the last year alone.

The official statistics also provide startling new evidence of botched assisted suicides, where instead of ‘dying with dignity’ one patient took a record five days to expire after ingesting a lethal cocktail.

Cases of long and lingering deaths by assisted suicide have been documented repeatedly in Oregon, a state touted as a model of excellence by euthanasia campaigners in the UK.