Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and Persistent Vegetative State

This article compares the attitude of medical students, the Patras Lawyer Association and Patras Court of Justice in Greece, to the USA. In Greece only 5% of the respondent physicians approved of assisted suicide and 3% would be willing to assist a suicide. By contrast, in the USA 53% of physicians approved assisted suicide in some situations and 40% stated that they would be willing to assist a suicide.