End of life cocktail California, a mixture of drugs that can be used to help a person die peacefully, was legalized in 2016. The law allows terminally ill patients to request a lethal prescription from their doctor.

The cocktail consists of a sedative, a paralytic, and a drug to stop the heart. It is administered by injection, and takes about 10 minutes to work.

Since the law went into effect, over 1,500 people have requested a lethal prescription. Of those, …