Public opinion for euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide has alwaysbeen mixed. A poll that was taken by the Gallup Organization in Canadaduring July 1995 proves that people are starting to see the advantages of euthanasia. The first question that was asked was:.
"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?".
It is proven in this first question that the general public believes that cases of great pain and suffering deserve the right to choose euthanasia asan option to stop the pain. Three quarters of the people surveyed believed that the choice should be given to the patient.The second question was about non-immediate life threatening cases:.
"When a person has an incurable disease that is not immediately life-threatening but 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?".
As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening, the general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no may be thinking of treatment that has not been tried yet or treatment that may come in the.
future due to new technologies. Medical Advancements: During the last 20 years, technological advancement has increased more than the advancement of the whole time of man before that. People that have the no opinion on.
euthanasia may be thinking that the person may be saved by a sudden medical advancement. It would be terrible for a member of your family to take a lethal dose of drugs, given to them by a doctor, to find the next day while reading a recent medical journal that a cure had been found a few days before.
