This statistic displays the opinions of U.S. adults on laws allowing doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in 2013, by ethnicity. Some 32 percent of Hispanic adults in the United States approved of laws allowing for physician-assisted suicide. In the last 15 years, the percentage of people saying that medical professionals should do everything possible to save a patients life has increased.
Views of U.S. adults on laws allowing physician-assisted suicide by ethnicity in 2013
Original question: "In some states, it's legal for doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs that a terminally ill patient could use themselves to commit suicide. Do you approve or disapprove of laws that let doctors assist patients who want to end their lives this way?"
Those saying "don't know" are not shown. Whites and blacks are those who are non-Hispanic. Hispanics include those of any race.
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Pew Research Center. (November 21, 2013). Views of U.S. adults on laws allowing physician-assisted suicide by ethnicity in 2013 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/334020/opinion-on-laws-allowing-physician-assisted-suicide-in-us-adults-by-ethnicity/
Pew Research Center. "Views of U.S. adults on laws allowing physician-assisted suicide by ethnicity in 2013." Chart. November 21, 2013. Statista. Accessed April 21, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/334020/opinion-on-laws-allowing-physician-assisted-suicide-in-us-adults-by-ethnicity/
Pew Research Center. (2013). Views of U.S. adults on laws allowing physician-assisted suicide by ethnicity in 2013. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 21, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/334020/opinion-on-laws-allowing-physician-assisted-suicide-in-us-adults-by-ethnicity/
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