More than 130 patients in NSW died through voluntary assisted dying in program’s first three months

A majority of the people who completed the first assessment of the NSW voluntary assisted dying program were over the age of 60. Photograph: Andrew Murphy/Alamy

More than 130 patients have died through New South Wales’s voluntary assisted dying program in the first three months since it was legalised.

NSW became the last state in Australia to legalise voluntary assisted dying when new legislation came into effect in November.