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Attitudes toward assisted suicide — a survey of hospice volunteers
Author(s)	Phyllis W Zehnder, David Royse
Journal title	The Hospice Journal, vol 14, no 2, 1999
Pages	pp 49-64
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Euthanasia ; Attitude ; Voluntary workers ; Terminal care ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Technological advances have lengthened our years, and often, the dying process as well. While studies have been conducted of doctors and dying patients concerning their views on assisted suicide, no prior studies have examined the attitudes of hospice volunteers. This US survey of 277 hospice volunteers found that, overall, their attitudes were more supportive of assisted suicide than that of a convenience sample of the public. 37% of the volunteers endorsed the view that there are situations when assisting death may be morally acceptable; 4% had been asked to provide assistance to help a patient end his or her life. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990723223 A
Classmark	CY: DP: QV: LV: 3F: 7T
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