{"id":1014,"date":"2013-09-28T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2014-10-08T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:51:22","slug":"survey-results-show-confusion-reigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/survey-results-show-confusion-reigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey results show confusion reigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey by Ipsos for Living with Dignity shows that contrary to what many people are saying, there is no consensus; people do not know what the expression \"medical aid in dying\" means. In fact, one of the highlights of the survey shows that:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The expression \"medical aid in dying\" seems very vague\u00a0to the Quebec population and is subject to many different interpretations. In fact, a third of Quebecers interpret it as being the request of a patient for a doctor-given lethal injection while almost 30% understand\u00a0the term\u00a0as meaning the\u00a0relief of symptoms throughout palliative care.\u00a0Finally, almost 40% of those surveyed associate the term with the interruption of\u00a0agressive\u00a0therapy or with assisted suicide. This\u00a0wide dispersal of answers shows the ambiguity that surrounds the expression \"medical aid in dying\".<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An important conclusion that can be drawn from the survey is that:<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore essential to clarify the terms used and to communicate in a concrete way the true sense of euthanasia and to avoid the usage of a term that is even more vague like \"medical aid in dying\".<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/13-09-24-vdd-sondage-en.pdf\">Download the survey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey by Ipsos for Living with Dignity shows that contrary to what many people are saying, there is no consensus; people do not know what the expression &#8220;medical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}