Most religious followers support assisted suicide for the dying

A large survey in the United Kingdom has found that a majority of those people who said that they followed a religion—64%—think that there should be a change in the law to allow assisted suicide for people who are terminally ill. Only among Baptists and Muslims was there a majority against such a change.

The survey of nearly 4500 adults, 3000 of whom were religious, found that the greatest support for a legislative change was among those who did not have a religion—of 1630 people who said that they did not …