{"id":3908,"date":"2019-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/dignitas-news-en-260\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:02:50","slug":"more-than-half-of-jersey-doctors-favour-assisted-dying","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/more-than-half-of-jersey-doctors-favour-assisted-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"More than half of Jersey doctors favour assisted dying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the recent public opinion poll on assisted dying, a new poll has been carried out, again by 4insight, addressed to the island&#8217;s doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparing the two surveys, the proportion of doctors in favour is somewhat below that of the general public, but it is still a clear majority. For patients with a terminal illness, 60% of doctors felt that assistance to die was sometimes or always acceptable, and that they would be willing to render that assistance, given professional and legal protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/umfrage-eolcjersey-4insight-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Doctors Research Report for End of Life Choices Jersey (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent public opinion poll on assisted dying, a new poll has been carried out, again by 4insight, addressed to the island&#8217;s doctors. Comparing the two surveys, the proportion of doctors in favour is somewhat below that of the general public, but it is still a clear majority. For patients with a terminal illness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[625],"class_list":["post-3908","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-jersey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}