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Until after a Supreme Court ruling in 2006 threw out a Justice Department effort to block Oregonâs law, no other state permitted assisted suicide. Washington adopted its measure in 2008. Several northern European countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland, also allow assisted suicide.
The numbers you see here is the rate of suicides per 100,000 people in the state. Letâs find out what the 11 states with the highest suicide rates in America are: Suicide Rate per 100,000: 17.3. A lot of effort in Oklahoma has been done in order to lessen suicide rates in the state. Theyâve recently established a program that includes a website and a hotline that youths and other people may access. The Youth Suicide Prevention Act has been in effect in the state since 2001.