Right-to-die responses from a random sample of 200.
Seeking public attitudes toward the right-to-die, 200 telephone interviews were conducted with a random sample of residents in a midwestern city in the summer of 1990. Overall, 90% favored some kind of personal control over death circumstances. With semantics as an independent variable (euthanasia, mercy killing, physician-assisted suicide, or some form of personal control over death) only the group to whom "physician-assisted suicide" had been presented as a choice said "no" or "probably not" to a legalization question (p = < .0001).
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005065:Euthanasia; D033101:Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011639:Public Opinion; D012297:Right to Die; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D017236:Suicide, Assisted; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires