UK Poll Reveals That Only Eight Percent of Citizens Have Living Will

A recent poll of United Kingdom citizens found that 8% of those polled have a living will, 17% would very likely make a living will if it were easy, and 30% would quite likely make a living will if it were easy. 

Also of note in the UK, the Director of Public Prosecutions is supposed to publish on Thursday his policy on prosecuting those who assist a suicide, which will replace the interim guidelines currently in place.

See Andrew Alderson, Half the population would make a ‘living will’ if it was easy, says new poll, Telegraph UK, Feb. 21, 2010; see also my prior posts on the interim guidelines for prosecuting a United Kingdom citizen for assisting a suicide. 

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