UK Poll Reveals Overwhelming Support for Legalizing Assisted Suicide

Seventy-five percent of those polled in a recent United Kingdom Survey believe assisted suicide should be legal.  Currently, assisting a suicide is illegal in the country and subject to prosecution under certain guidelines.  Additionally, 80% of those “questioned said relatives of terminally ill people, who had made it clear they wanted to die, should not be prosecuted” under existing laws.  Telegraph, Assisted suicide: 4 in 5 say do not prosecute, Jan. 31, 2010.

See also my prior post.

Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this to my attention.