“…The MP campaigning for the right to die has been buoyed by a poll that shows more than 85 per cent of respondents to a survey supported voluntary euthanasia.
The Sunday Star-Times reader poll of more than 1000 people also found almost three-quarters of people would help a terminally-ill loved one commit suicide -
- and that support for a law change is highest among men- and those over 60.
Labour MP Maryan Street has been working with the Voluntary Euthanasia Society on her End of Life Choice Bill – which would give people the right to “choose how and when they exit this life”.
The private members bill will have to be drawn from the ballot to get a hearing – but Street says the reader poll had the highest support she had seen – with most polls getting 75 per cent backing for a law change.
“There is more support out in the community for this than people imagine,” Street said.
She had seen a change since a 1995 euthanasia vote was lost 61-29 – to 60-57 when it was revisited in 2003.
“And, nine years on, attitudes have changed again.”..”
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