1. Laypersons tend to support active euthanasia and active non-voluntary euthanasia more than physicians do.
2. Physicians who give medical opinions offhandedly without thinking of legal implications and medical ethics tend to support active voluntary euthanasia more than physicians who express their opinions while worrying about the legality and ethics of an act. In either case, physicians’ support of active non-voluntary euthanasia is significantly less than that of laypersons.
3. For physicians and laypersons alike, age is not a determining factor affecting their views on euthanasia.
4. Difference in income and educational background contribute to differing views on active non-voluntary euthanasia.
5. The majority of people believe that medical and nursing organizations should be responsible for euthanasia, that a doctor is competent to judge whether a patient’s case is hopeless or not, that the patient and the doctor should have joint decision in permitting euthanasia, and that an advance directive should be accepted by the doctor as constituting a patient’s written decision.