Americans who say physician-assisted suicide is morally acceptable
Percent of Americans agreeing it is acceptable to ask a physician's aid in a painful terminal disease, 2016 (in percent)
Key finding
- Americans who say physician-assisted suicide is morally acceptable: 67%. Percent of Americans who agree it is morally acceptable to ask a physician's aid in taking one's own life when facing a painful terminal disease
Source: Lifeway Research, Most Americans Say Assisted Suicide is Morally Acceptable · Lifeway Research survey of 1,000 Americans; 95 percent confidence, sampling error no more than plus or minus 3.1 percent. Article published 2016-12-06.
Get the chart, CSV, PNG and citation
Free account: full chart, CSV and PNG downloads, ready-to-paste citation, branded share image, and a discussion question for your team.
Questions about this statistic
What does this statistic show?
Americans who say physician-assisted suicide is morally acceptable: 67%. Percent of Americans who agree it is morally acceptable to ask a physician's aid in taking one's own life when facing a painful terminal disease.
Who published this data?
Lifeway Research, 2016. Source: Lifeway Research, Most Americans Say Assisted Suicide is Morally Acceptable (https://research.lifeway.com/2016/12/06/most-americans-say-assisted-suicide-is-morally-acceptable/).
Where can I get the full data and a citation?
Create a free Leader Insights account to open the full chart, download CSV or PNG, copy a citation and save the statistic to your own library.
More Belief & Culture statistics
- Age at which people switched religious identification Lifeway Research, 2026
- Americans' views of Pope Leo XIV Public Religion Research Institute, 2026
- Americans who at least somewhat believe calling is a spiritual experience American Bible Society, 2026
- Americans concerned about declining moral behavior in the nation Lifeway Research, 2017
- Americans identifying as religious nones Lifeway Research, 2017
- How UK adults describe Christian communities Barna Group, 2017
About this data
Leader Insights collects statistics about U.S. churches from published research by organizations such as Lifeway Research, Barna Group, Springtide, the American Bible Society and PRRI. Every number is checked against the wording of the original source before it is published, and each statistic links back to the study it came from. Figures are reproduced from the publishers named above; see the source for full methodology.