SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans have picked not being burden on their family as the best manner in which to face death — in a sharp contrast to their counterparts in the United States and Britain — a local survey showed Wednesday. In his paper announced this month in the medical journal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six in 10 South Koreans favor euthanasia for terminal patients when life support is deemed meaningless, a poll showed Friday. In the survey conducted by Seoul National University Hospital, 66.5 percent of 1,241 citizens said they are in favor of removing life support from patients when there [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 3,000 have signed up for the die with dignity program since hospitals in South Korea started carrying out end-of-life care trials, government data showed Thursday. On Oct. 20, 13 hospitals launched a program to allow terminally ill patients with no possibility of recovery to forgo treatment before [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost 8 out of 10 Koreans support the legalization of the right to turn off life support systems under familial consent, when additional care is considered to be in vain. According to a survey report by Gallup Korea on 1,006 Koreans over 19 years of age, conducted between May [...]