Distribution of responses to the first questionnaire about acceptance of euthanasia and the second questionnaire about reasonable legal sanction when a physician performs euthanasia
| First questionnaire | Second questionnaire | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acceptance | Legal sanction | Type of legal sanction | |||||||
| Positive | Negative | Don’t know | None | Yes | Charges dropped | Remission of sentence | Prison for manslaughter | Prison for murder | |
| All values are shown as number (%). | |||||||||
| Engineering | 84 (49.5) | 16 (7.5) | 92 (43.0) | 83 (49.7) | 84 (50.3) | 62 (37.2) | 16 (9.5) | 5 (3.0) | 1 (0.6) |
| Law | 84 (49.4) | 39 (14.7) | 95 (35.9) | 70 (26.4) | 191 (73.6) | 89 (34.3) | 64 (24.2) | 26 (9.9) | 12 (5.2) |
| Medicine | 17 (26.8) | 23 (34.3) | 28 (38.8) | 27 (40.3) | 40 (59.7) | 25 (37.3) | 11 (16.4) | 2 (3.0) | 2 (3.0) |
| Nursing | 28 (28.3) | 17 (12.3) | 82 (59.4) | 62 (43.1) | 82 (56.9) | 44 (30.6) | 26 (18.1) | 3 (2.1) | 9 (6.2) |
| Female | 138 (38.3) | 44 (12.2) | 178 (49.5) | 143 (36.0) | 253 (64.0) | 140 (35.6) | 71 (18.4) | 23 (5.1) | 19 (4.8) |
| Male | 156 (48.2) | 50 (15.4) | 118 (36.4) | 99 (41.4) | 144 (58.6) | 80 (32.7) | 46 (18.5) | 13 (5.1) | 5 (2.3) |