Gallup: Euthanasia Now Accepted by 69% of Americans

Cybercast News Service ^ | June 24, 2016 | 2:33 PM EDT | Lauretta Brown

[Olog-hai]

A Gallup poll released today, June 24, found that the majority of Americans believe euthanasia should be legal, with 69 percent agreeing that when a person has an incurable disease and requests euthanasia “doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient’s life by some painless means.”

The first time Gallup found a majority in favor of euthanasia was 1973. The percentage in favor of euthanasia grew from 53 percent in 1973 to 65 percent in 1990. […]

While 69 percent of Americans agreed that doctors should be allowed to end patients’ lives by painless means, only 51 percent of Americans said that if they personally had an incurable disease and were living in severe pain would they “consider ending their own lives by some painless means.” …

[Noumenon]

What is voluntary will soon become compulsory. History is my witness.

[GingisK]

I can recommend almost 50% of the population for the process.

[Recompennation]

that if they personally had an incurable disease and were living in severe pain would they “consider ending their own lives by some painless means.
Therefore we have the government medical review board aka the death board. After all saving money was the sale point.

[MattinNJ]

Aye. Freedom.

[Rurudyne]

Is it wrong that I thought of Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella and her misinformed rants when I saw the title of this thread?

[onedoug]

By a not-so-strange coincidence, thanks to public education, an even greater percentage of the American people does not know anything, about anything.

[TexasFreeper2009]

We are quibbling over the definition of euthanasia.

You are picturing a doctor giving someone something that kills them (most likely, but not always, without their consent)

I am talking about a person deciding they don't want to continue treatment that probably wont work anyway (like Chemo for Cancer) and instead, being given the option of refusing said treatment and leave the hospital and live out the remainder of their lives in the manner they see fit.

The exact way this poll was worded would inadvertently include many who are thinking of the 2nd scenario not the first.

[elcid1970]

“Youth in Asia”

Heh, heh!

;^)

[Puppage]

Perhaps, but I bet they could tell you who got kicked off The Survivor Island soooooo, there’s that.

[Zack Attack]

It’s a summer camp in Asia (as in "youth in Asia").

Reminds me of the SNL skit with Emily Litella.

"Why would anyone oppose youth in Asia? Oh! Nevermind!"

[captmar-vell]

“For the convenience of the State.”

Give the beast any room and it will run with it, it may take a generation (or not) but its coming,

And just before its their turn to be cast aside by the all powerful NWO beast state, these people will wake up one day to wonder just how it was that we got here,

This is how it happens,

Also I’m curious who it is that pays for Gallup to conduct this research,

[Twinkie]

“EUTHANASIA” is just a nice-sounding word substitute for
“SUICIDE”. - Just as “ABORTION” is for “BABY MURDER”.
(In some cases, euthanasia is murder if it’s done without
consent.) With consent, it’s suicide AND murder.

[Twinkie]

Human beings are NOT dogs. - The moment that the CREATOR
calls me home; I think I’ll be ready, but I think I’ll just
sit tight & wait for His call. “Mercy” killing, to me, IS
simply MURDER, not MERCY.

[P.O.E.]

I personally know of at least three families who couldn’t wait for a well-off elder to join the dearly departed.

And the elders involved were some of the sweetest people I’d ever met, so I don’t know how their kids became so cold-hearted.

[stocksthatgoup]

We have lost our soul

[Dante3]

I have a hard time believing this poll - at least partly because I do not want to believe it.

[freedumb2003]

>>You couldn’t be more wrong. The minute it is a “right” to choose euthanasia or assisted suicide, it will then be expected. <<

That has nothing to do with what I posted. I said it is up to each individual.

>>If you want to check yourself out, fine. Save up your pain pills like everyone else.<<

IOW, you agree with me while disagreeing with me.

[LadyDoc]

The problem is the slippery slope...look at Europe...and shat is hidden is there are killings of the sick by rogue personnel who decided the person should die.

and, like the Nazis, you will see it promoted in films.. an upcoming film Me over you, promotes the idea that euthanasia is good if you are disabled.

The disability activists are up in arms because it essentially says the disabled are better off dead.

[George Washington Axe]

Wonder what a poll about Vigilante justice would say?