Allow incurable patients to die

letdie1

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 226. When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?

Overview

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	-	66	546	11	907	-	1530
1978	-	60	587	1	884	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	-	91	737	6	1026	-	1860
1983	-	70	519	5	1005	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	-	43	513	2	976	-	1534
1986	-	53	448	4	965	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	493	48	287	5	648	-	1481
1989	531	45	300	4	657	-	1537
1990	444	47	243	3	635	-	1372
1991	493	48	255	2	719	-	1517
1993	526	57	323	4	696	-	1606
1994	1015	96	537	10	1334	-	2992
1996	944	78	548	5	1329	-	2904
1998	961	106	499	7	1259	-	2832
2000	940	100	565	7	1205	-	2817
2002	1857	19	288	2	599	-	2765
2004	1906	30	275	5	596	-	2812
2006	2518	59	616	8	1309	-	4510
2008	1375	29	202	1	416	-	2023
2010	614	30	446	11	943	-	2044
2012	672	44	402	8	848	-	1974
2014	863	47	496	11	1121	-	2538
2016	979	46	482	10	1350	-	2867
2018	789	38	411	14	1096	-	2348
2021	2689	3	382	2	934	22	4032
2022	2339	23	291	6	882	3	3544
2024	2200	34	310	8	748	9	3309
Total	37498	1410	11508	162	25087	34	75699

Values

• 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(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