A display of how the responders classified the termination of life-sustaining treatment in either vignette
| Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 3 | ||||
| 77-year-old woman | 36-year-old man | 34-year-old man | ||||
| Dialysis | Dialysis | Ventilator | ||||
| Physicians | Public | Physicians | Public | Physicians | Public | |
| n=674 (% (CI)) | n=559 (% (CI)) | n=655 (% (CI)) | n=557 (% (CI)) | n=654 (% (CI)) | n=552 (% (CI)) | |
| A defensible act | 88 (86 to 91) | 77 (74 to 80) | 75 (72 to 78) | 66 (62 to 70) | 65 (61 to 69) | 77 (73 to 81) |
| Assisted suicide | 4 (2 to 6) | 6 (4 to 8) | 12 (9 to 15) | 15 (12 to 18) | 9 (7 to 11) | 5 (3 to 7) |
| A type of euthanasia | 8 (6 to 10) | 16 (13 to 19) | 13 (10 to 16) | 17 (14 to 20) | 26 (23 to 29) | 16 (13 to 19) |
| Manslaughter | 0 | 0 (0 to 1) | 0 (0 to 1) | 1 (0 to 2) | 0 (0 to 1) | 1 (0 to 2) |
| Murder | 0 (0 to 1) | 1 (0 to 2) | 0 (0 to 1) | 1 (0 to 2) | 0 (0 to 1) | 1 (0 to 2) |
The results are presented as proportions with a 95% CI.