Allow incurable patients to die (form 2)

letdie1y

Source

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

Details

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

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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B	2008, 2021, 2022, 2024

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for letdie1y.

Counts by year:

year	iap	yes	no	don't know	no answer	skipped on web	Total
2008	1342	453	211	16	1	-	2023
2021	2658	986	370	2	4	12	4032
2022	2373	829	305	28	6	3	3544
2024	2235	722	304	32	5	11	3309
Total	8608	2990	1190	78	16	26	12908