/ 22 March 2001

50% SUPPORT VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA

FIFTY percent of South Africans polled in a survey believed voluntary euthanasia was acceptable while the other 50% felt the idea was unacceptable, one of South Africa’s leading information companies, Research Surveys, has found. White respondents (67%), were more inclined to find the idea of voluntary euthanasia acceptable than black (47%), Indian (46%) and coloured respondents (38%).