The margin of error
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"Differences between political conservatives and liberals are
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majority of self-identified conservatives (72%) think assisted suicide
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NEW YORK----Results of a national
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Editors/Reporters: For more information on the poll, or to speak
with Dr. Many Americans are now more aware they can't take their well-being
for granted; even worse, they don't necessarily feel they can do anything
about it. Moreover, fully 96% of women and 92% of men surveyed agree 9/11
made Americans feel more vulnerable.
And while 37% agree that, these days , Americans value human life more than
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A plurality (46%) would not assist a patient
for any reason.
"In our recent studies, physicians have been uniform in their
response to certain moral and ethical issues such as stem cell
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research," said Glenn Kessler, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, HCD
Research.

When asked to describe the source of their attitudes toward
physician assisted suicide, a plurality of doctors offered
their understanding of their obligations as physicians (40%),
followed by their general moral values (24%), their view of
patient autonomy (20%), and their religious beliefs (13%)
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Although doctors tend to support legalization as a public policy,
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54% believe that assisted suicide should be a matter between
patient and doctor alone and that government should not
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There's the downward slope of aging and infirmity -- two realities that are
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Even nearly four years later, the terrorist attacks of September 11 , 2001
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The findings also indicated that a plurality of physicians polled
(41%) endorse the legalization of physician assisted suicide under a
wide variety of circumstances , while 30% support its legalization in a
few cases only and 29% oppose legalizing it in all cases .
"For a long time, Americans tended to act as if illness and death were
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