Editing Euthanasia (section)

==Health professionals' sentiment==
A 2010 survey in the United States of more than 10,000 physicians found that 16.3% of physicians would consider halting life-sustaining therapy because the family demanded it, even if they believed that it was premature. Approximately 54.5% would not, and the remaining 29.2% responded "it depends".<ref name=kane>{{cite web |author=Leslie Kane, MA |url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/731485_2 |title=Exclusive Ethics Survey Results: Doctors Struggle With Tougher-Than-Ever Dilemmas |website=Medscape.com |access-date=6 July 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814134456/http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/731485_2 |archive-date=14 August 2017}}</ref> The study also found that 45.8% of physicians agreed that physician-assisted suicide should be allowed in some cases; 40.7% did not, and the remaining 13.5% felt it depended.<ref name=kane/>

In the United Kingdom, the assisted dying campaign group [[Dignity in Dying]] cites research in which 54% of general practitioners support or are neutral towards a law change on assisted dying.<ref>{{cite web |title=Public opinion – Dignity in Dying |url=https://www.dignityindying.org.uk/assisted-dying/public-opinion/ |access-date=3 August 2018 |archive-date=14 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514142940/https://www.dignityindying.org.uk/assisted-dying/public-opinion/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Similarly, a 2017 [[Doctors.net.uk]] poll reported in the [[British Medical Journal]] stated that 55% of doctors believe assisted dying, in defined circumstances, should be legalised in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Assisted dying case 'stronger than ever' with majority of doctors now in support |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/health/assisted-dying-debate-bmj-doctors-majority-support/ |access-date=3 August 2018 |date=7 February 2018 |archive-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515040235/https://inews.co.uk/news/health/assisted-dying-debate-bmj-doctors-majority-support/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019, the World Medical Association issued a statement during its 70th Assembly declaring itself opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2019 |title=WMA Declaration on Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide |url=https://www.wma.net/policies-post/declaration-on-euthanasia-and-physician-assisted-suicide/ }}</ref>