After Terri Schiavo: Following the headline-making, court-supported death of a young woman in a “persistent vegetative state,” support for euthanasia in the U.S. continues to rise, doubling in five decades from 37% approval in 1947.
| Americans who support euthanasia for the terminally ill: Weekly church goers: Evangelical Christians: | 75% 51% 61% |
| Americans supporting doctor-assisted suicide for people suffering incurable disease with chronic pain: Weekly church goers: Evangelical Christians: | 58% 30% 32% |
| Americans who say, I would not end my own life by some painless means if I suffered a painful, incurable disease: Weekly church goers: Evangelical Christians: | 38% 69% 62% |
| Americans who say, Remove my life support in the case of a persistent vegetative state with no hope of significant recovery: Weekly church goers: Evangelical Christians: | 85% 75% 70% |
—Gallup Poll, May 2005
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