2012年3月21日 星期三

Poll Results for Euthanasia in Canada

Gallup (Canada) Poll Results

Question:
"When a person has an incurable disease that is immediately life-threatening* and causes that person to experience great suffering, do you, or do you not think that competent doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life through mercy killing, if the patient has made a formal request in writing?"
* Prior to 1995 the question did not state that the disease was immediately life-threatening.

The precise dates and percentages are as follows:

(First date shown is date of data collection; parenthesized date is date of publication)

                                     Yes No

Aug. 1968 (Aug. 1968)  45  43
Mar. 1974 (May  1974)  55  35
Sep. 1979 (Oct.  1979)  68  23
Feb. 1984 (Apr. 1984)   66  24

Jun. 1989 (Jul.   1989)   77  17
Aug. 1990 (Aug. 1990)  78  14
Oct. 1991 (Nov.  1991)  75  17
Oct. 1992 (Nov.  1992)  77  17

Mar. 1994 (Apr.  1994?) 75 17
Dec. 1994 (Jan.  1995)   76  16
Jul. 1995 (Aug.    1995)  75  17
Nov. 1997 (Mar.   1998)  76  18

Nov. 1998 (Dec. 1998)   77  19
Nov. 1999 (Dec. 1999)   75  21
Dec. 2000 (Jan.  2001)   72  21
Jan. 2002 (Feb.  2002)   79  19
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  1. patrick yu2012年4月13日 中午12:45

    雖然不認同人數多小作道德價值判斷,而增加支持人數也不可代表mercy killing 在道德價值上的對確.

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  2. Athena2012年4月18日 上午8:48

    Under the circumstances, the macry killing is acceptable if the patient has the formal letter of requst macry killing. It seems that people would think the macry killing is moral than before.One of the reason is technology improvement, it let the people to change the value of life. more knowledge they know, they would be easier to accept macry killing. Coz they thought life and death can be controlled by themselves.

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