STUDY: TERMINALLY ILL CANCER PATIENTS FAVOR LEGALIZATION OF EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE
2000 SEP 19 -- (NewsRx.com) -- Patients with advanced stage cancer favor policies that allow euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide if pain and physical symptoms become intolerable, according to an article in the September 11, 2000, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Keith G. Wilson, PhD, from The Rehabilitation Centre, Ottawa, Canada, and colleagues surveyed 70 terminally ill cancer patients (median survival was 44.5 days) to evaluate their attitudes about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. This is the first study to directly examine the attitudes of cancer patients who are nearing death, according to the authors.

They found that 73% believed euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide should be legalized -- their major reasons included pain and the right to choose. The participants who were opposed to the legislation cited religious and moral objections.......

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