California Department of Health says 111 terminally ill people have legally ended their lives since a right-to-die law took effect in 2016, in a report released Tuesday.

A report in USA Today indicated that the the End of Life Option, which allows terminally ill people to request life-ending drugs, became effective  in California on June 9, 2016.

The report released on Tuesday indicated that between June 9 and Dec. 31, 2016, 191 people with six months or fewer to live received life-ending prescriptions under the law, though 111 of them had taken the pills by the end of the reporting period in December.

According to the report, of the 111 who died using the prescription drugs, 58.6% had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, while neuromuscular disorders like ALS and Parkinsons’s accounted for 18% of the group.

A little over 75% of the 111 people, were 60-89 years of age, and 89.5% were white. The majority of the people involved have at least some college education.

California is not the only state with such a law in the United States. Oregon, became the first to adopt similar legislation in 1997, and U.S. doctor-assisted deaths are legal in Colorado, Montana, Vermont, Washington and Washington, D.C., according to AP.

But the California’s law gained momentum after Brittany Maynard, who moved from California to Oregon, where she could legally die with medication prescribed under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act.

“The state’s data show that even during the early months of the law’s implementation, the law was working well and terminally ill Californians were able to take comfort in knowing that they had this option to peacefully end intolerable suffering,” he said. “… We continue to work to ensure that every terminally ill Californian has equal access to all end-of-life care options, including hospice, pain control, palliative care and medical aid in dying,” Matt Whitaker, State Director of Compassion & Choices, which backed the California law, said in a statement

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