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Gallup: Euthanasia Now Accepted by 69% of Americans
Cybercast News Service ^ | June 24, 2016 | 2:33 PM EDT | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 06/25/2016 6:28:09 AM PDT by 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.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: deathpanels; euthanasia; gallup; zerocare
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To: Terry L Smith

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


21 posted on 06/25/2016 6:59:53 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Objects in history may be closer than they appear")
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To: Olog-hai

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


22 posted on 06/25/2016 7:06:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Olog-hai

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.


23 posted on 06/25/2016 7:19:38 AM PDT by Recompennation
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To: freedumb2003

Aye. Freedom.


24 posted on 06/25/2016 7:22:31 AM PDT by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: Olog-hai

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


25 posted on 06/25/2016 7:28:01 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Olog-hai

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


26 posted on 06/25/2016 7:34:08 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: DesertRhino
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.

27 posted on 06/25/2016 7:35:02 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: MuttTheHoople

“Youth in Asia”

Heh, heh!

;^)


28 posted on 06/25/2016 7:40:09 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: darkwing104

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


29 posted on 06/25/2016 7:50:54 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Olog-hai
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!"

30 posted on 06/25/2016 7:54:13 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Terry L Smith

“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,


31 posted on 06/25/2016 8:06:59 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Olog-hai

“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.


32 posted on 06/25/2016 9:44:56 AM PDT by Twinkie (Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
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To: rstrahan

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.


33 posted on 06/25/2016 10:14:47 AM PDT by Twinkie (Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


34 posted on 06/25/2016 10:19:04 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

We have lost our soul


35 posted on 06/25/2016 11:42:35 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stut)
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To: Olog-hai

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


36 posted on 06/25/2016 11:43:44 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: DesertRhino

>>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.


37 posted on 06/25/2016 12:13:38 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: Olog-hai
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.

38 posted on 06/25/2016 2:14:11 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people..)
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To: freedumb2003

Wonder what a poll about Vigilante justice would say?


39 posted on 06/25/2016 6:39:17 PM PDT by George Washington Axe
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