Survey results indicate a significant increase in Italian support for end-of-life choice in the last 15 years.

A regional poll in New Zealand finds majority support for legalizing assisted dying.

Cites various polls of people in the United States supportive of the right to die.

South African Law Commission member Willem Landman says that informal surveys document physician support for the legalization of voluntary euthanasia.

A Baylor College of Medicine study finds that 44.5 percent of U.S. physicians support assisted dying.

An Oregon Health & Science University study identifies the personality traits of those who have hastened their death under the Oregon Death with Dignity law.

A Voluntary Euthanasia Society survey found that more than half the physicians in the United Kingdom support the right to a physician assisted death for the terminally ill.