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Strong support for legal euthanasia

Post date February 24, 2010

Most Austrians think euthanasia in the final stage of a lethal disease should go unpunished, a poll has shown.Vienna-based research agency Karmasin said it had interviewed 500 Austrians for its weekly poll for news magazine profil.The pollsters announced 46 per cent of questioned people had said doctors who carry out euthanasia on patients suffering from […]

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Majority of Austrians support euthanasia

General News

Post date February 17, 2010

Sixty-two per cent of Austrians support euthanasia by doctors for patients who request it, the results of a new poll commissioned by Graz Medical University released today (Weds) show.The percentage is 13 percentage points higher than in 2000, it said.In the poll, 66 per cent of men and 58.5 per cent of women said they […]

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