suicide4
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 227. Do you think a person has the right to end his or her own life if this person: d. Is tired of living and ready to die?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | don't know | no | no answer | yes | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | - | 27 | 1294 | 7 | 202 | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | - | 20 | 1330 | 1 | 181 | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | - | 58 | 1551 | 12 | 239 | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | - | 41 | 1317 | 9 | 232 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | - | 35 | 1304 | 4 | 191 | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | - | 20 | 1226 | 4 | 220 | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 493 | 26 | 834 | 8 | 120 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 531 | 21 | 846 | 5 | 134 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 444 | 38 | 754 | 3 | 133 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 493 | 27 | 865 | 3 | 129 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 526 | 38 | 871 | 4 | 167 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 1015 | 59 | 1558 | 11 | 349 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 944 | 57 | 1556 | 6 | 341 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 961 | 72 | 1493 | 5 | 301 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 940 | 69 | 1494 | 7 | 307 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1857 | 13 | 759 | - | 136 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1906 | 16 | 729 | 4 | 157 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2518 | 37 | 1631 | 6 | 318 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 694 | 29 | 1071 | 6 | 223 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 614 | 35 | 1130 | 6 | 259 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 672 | 37 | 1016 | 9 | 240 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 863 | 33 | 1306 | 6 | 330 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 979 | 33 | 1470 | 12 | 373 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 789 | 26 | 1192 | 11 | 330 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 2556 | 237 | 979 | 4 | 252 | 4 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2373 | 20 | 845 | 3 | 296 | 7 | 3544 |
| Total | 34518 | 1124 | 30421 | 156 | 6160 | 11 | 72390 |
1 yes
2 no
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook