The majority of Connecticut voters support physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, according to a Quinnipiac University poll release on Wednesday.
Of the participants who took the poll, 63 percent supported allowing doctors to prescribe doses of lethal drugs "to help terminally ill patients end their own lives," the poll said.
The topic hit the national spotlight and became a controversial talking point when a terminally ill cancer patient named Brittany Maynard, 29, opted to end her life on Nov. 1, 2014 under the Death with Dignity Act in Oregon.
"Connecticut has been a leader in personal choice at all phases of life, and this poll shows that support for aid-in-dying is not just strong, but growing from 61 percent in 2014 to 63 percent today," Tim Appleton, the Connecticut campaign director for Compassion & Choices, said in a statement. "The Quinnipiac Poll supports what polls across the country, and here in Connecticut have shown for several years - that a solid majority of residents support policies that would give terminally ill, mentally competent individuals the right to choose aid-in-dying."
Connecticut voters in all age groups, genders and party affiliations supported assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. People older than 55 supported it 59 to 34 percent, according to the poll.
