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Physician Assisted Suicide


A poll in 1999 found that 52% of Americans though that Kevorkian should have been found guilty on some charge, while only 27% said that he was not guilty. The survey also found that 45% of Americans have a positive opinion of Kevorkian while 36% have an unfavorable one. After being informed that Kevorkian does not have a license to practice medicine and that he supports the right of doctors to help healthy patients die, his approval rating dropped to 19%, while his unfavorable rating rose to 57%.

Public support for physician assisted suicide was confined to the limited situation where a terminally ill patient would ask a doctor for help to commit suicide. Fifty four percent thought that doctors should be able to give a lethal dose to these patients. Thirty two percent said they shouldn?t. There is virtually no support for physician assisted suicide if the patient was not terminally ill. Only 11% said that doctors should give a lethal dose to non terminal patients who feel they are a burden to their family. Only 7% said that doctors should be legally allowed to prescribe lethal doses to healthy patients who want to commit suicide. Even more significant is the finding that the vast majority want doctors to reduce the number of suicides, not increase them. The number of Americans that thought that doctors had a ?moral obligation? to try to talk the patient out of committing suicide was a surprising 81%.

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