Question 1
This question was designed to get a feel for how many people are aware of and would be able to provide an opinion on euthanasia, had they not been given the definition at the beginning of my survey. Unsurprisingly, the majority of my survey takers did know what euthanasia is, a total of 25, while 5 didn't know. I expected this to be the case.
Question 2
The purpose of this question was to determine how many females and males take the survey, as I suspect that females are more sympathetic to people and therefore, more likely to oppose euthanasia. Like I expected, more females than males took the survey, which supports my idea because most people are in support of euthanasia. 17 females took the survey, while 13 males took it.
Question 3
I wanted to receive a variety of age ranges for this question. This is to see if younger people or older people are likely to support euthanasia. I targeted everyone but mostly got teens. This is because they were more likely to respond since I'm a teenager like them. I posted this question on Facebook and that's where I got the most responses, so I got more younger people because this is the age range of most of my Facebook friends. 5 people were the youngest (15-18), and 19 people were 19-21. I got 4 22-25 year old's, no 26-30 year old's, and 2 30+ year old's.
Question 4
I included this question because I wanted to see what type of different religious views I would receive. This would provide different perspectives on euthanasia based on influences (such as religion), rather than personal opinion. I received a myriad of responses, such as 2 Other: Paganism's and even 5 Atheism's. I got none of the rare religions, such as Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. There was 2 Agnosticism's and 4 people responded that they have no religion. This is great because it allowed me to get a lot of different responses for my data. Of course, there were a lot of Christianity's (16) because the majority of America is Christian.
Question 5
The point of this question is to take the forementioned religions and analyze them based on the allowance of euthanasia. This is to determine how widely accepted euthanasia is by groups of people, rather than one. The majority of people said "No", which was 15 people. 5 said yes, and 4 said they have no religion. This was expected because as stated in the previous question, the majority of the respondents were Christian, and killing is not allowed in Christianity. For other religions; however, 6 people said it depends or they just don't know, which was undecided.
Question 6
This question's purpose is to determine whether or not people think that euthanasia is more acceptable when it comes to pets, rather than humans. 4 people said they were undecided, probably because of the sentimental value pets have. 6 others said no, but the majority, which was 20, said yes. I predicted this because people relate more to people: meaning that they are more likely to support euthanasia when it applies to animals, because they are lesser life forms.
Question 7
With this question I wanted to see if, when released from the personal guilt of killing someone who wanted to live, people would still kill them. The results of this question surprised me. Rather than a majority of wrong's, there was only 10. Out of the other 20 that responded, only 5 said right. Instead of a right or wrong conclusion, the majority of people who responded stated "other". 15 people, half of the respondents claim that it depends on the situation, proving my theory of personal guilt clouding a person's ability to commit euthanasia. The results showed me that instead of completely rejecting the idea, most people would at least think about it, if not follow through.
Question 8
The purpose of this question is to determine opinions on the two sides of euthanasia. Because both of the sides are extreme and have valid points to them, the survey taker has to really make a choice based on what they think. Surprisingly, the majority, which was 15, said that euthanasia is a right that people should have. 10 said that killing someone is playing God. 5 others were undecided, which did not help my data like the other two options did.
Question 9
This question was placed to simply determine the survey takers opinion on euthanasia. It also makes them think by including family, because the decision that is harder to make when it comes to someone they love. The results of this question were equal all the way. This was surprising, because I expected it to be swayed one way or the other by at least a little. 10 said they would kill the family member, 10 said they would let them live, and 10 said they were undecided. This question didn't contribute to my data at all!