{"id":1058,"date":"2013-11-23T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/11\/american-choices-around-death-differ-by-religion-and-race.html"},"modified":"2013-11-23T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:06:00","slug":"american-choices-around-death-differ-by-religion-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/11\/american-choices-around-death-differ-by-religion-and-race.html","title":{"rendered":"American Choices Around Death Differ By Religion And Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Death may be inevitable, but one in three Americans \u2013 including most blacks and Hispanics \u2013 want doctors to never quit fighting it.<\/span><\/div>\n
And that number has nearly doubled in 23 years, a new survey finds.<\/span><\/div>\n
In 1990, 15 percent of U.S. adults said doctors should do everything possible for a patient, even in the face of incurable illness and pain. Today, 31 percent hold that view, according to a report released Thursday (Nov. 21) by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Religion & Public Life Project.<\/span><\/div>\n
The majority of U.S. adults (66 percent) still say there are circumstances when a patient should be allowed to die. At the same time, however, the never-say-die view calling for nonstop aggressive treatment has increased across every religion, race, ethnicity and level of education.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t really know why there is a doubling in that viewpoint,\u201d said the survey\u2019s author, Pew senior researcher Cary Funk, who found the shift \u201csurprising.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to yourself, well, you might just hang on a little longer as you face the reality of identifying your own condition,\u201d said Funk. Doctors \u201care always offering one more hope, one more treatment. You don\u2019t know what the possibilities are.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Questions about end-of-life care loom large for the 14 percent of Americans who are 65 or older. And nearly half (47 percent) of all U.S. adults surveyed say they have already faced these issues in the life of a relative or friend who had a terminal illness or was in a coma in the past five years.<\/span><\/div>\n
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