Editing Assisted suicide (section)

====U.S. polls====
Polls conducted by Gallup dating back to 1947 posit the question, "When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?" show support for the practice increasing from 37% in 1947 to a plateau of approximately 75% lasting from approximately 1990 to 2005. When the polling question was modified as such so the question posits "severe pain" as opposed to an incurable disease, "legalization" as opposed to generally allowing doctors, and "patient suicide" rather than physician-administered voluntary euthanasia, public support was substantially lower, by approximately 10% to 15%.<ref name="Attitudes2016"/>

A poll conducted by [[National Journal]] and Regence Foundation found that both Oregonians and Washingtonians were more familiar with the terminology "end-of-life care" than the rest of the country and residents of both states are slightly more aware of the terms palliative and hospice care.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Living Well at the End of Life Poll|journal=The National Journal|date=February 2010|url=http://syndication.nationaljournal.com/communications/NationalJournalRegenceSeattleToplines.pdf|access-date=4 October 2016|archive-date=13 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513094638/http://syndication.nationaljournal.com/communications/NationalJournalRegenceSeattleToplines.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

A survey from the Journal of Palliative Medicine found that family caregivers of patients who chose assisted death were more likely to find positive meaning in caring for a patient and were more prepared for accepting a patient's death than the family caregivers of patients who did not request assisted death.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ganzini L, Goy ER, Dobscha SK, Prigerson H | title = Mental health outcomes of family members of Oregonians who request physician aid in dying | journal = Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | volume = 38 | issue = 6 | pages = 807–815 | date = December 2009 | pmid = 19783401 | doi = 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.04.026 | doi-access = free }}</ref>