COMPASSION & CHOICES HI
TRACKING STUDY
Prepared for:
Compassion & Choices HI
December 2016

Anthol ogy G roup .com

 Methodology

• Mixed mode (online/telephone)
• Nov. 6 – Nov. 28, 2016

• Statewide sample of
603 registered voters

• Margin of error +/- 3.99 with a
95% confidence level

2

 Aid in Dying Options for Others
When a mentally capable adult is dying of a terminal disease that
cannot be cured, do you think that this adult should have the legal
option to request prescription medicine from their doctor, and use that
medication to end their suffering in their final stages of dying?
55%

80%

of registered voters support
having a medical aid in dying
option available to others

25%

4%

8%

8%

0%

3

 Aid in Dying Option for Oneself
In the event I am diagnosed with a terminal illness, I want to
be able to manage my own medication to lessen suffering and
preserve my dignity and be in control of my own pain, as I see fit,
to bring about my peaceful death.
65%

88%

of registered voters support
having a medical aid in dying
option available to them
23%

4%
4

4%

4%

 Aid in Dying Option for Oneself
Tracking since 2004
In the event I am diagnosed with a terminal illness, I want to
be able to manage my own medication to lessen suffering and
preserve my dignity and be in control of my own pain, as I see fit,
to bring about my peaceful death.
*Minor wording changes to description

5

2004*

2011

2016

Strongly Agree

59%

64%

65%

Somewhat Agree

21%

24%

23%

NET AGREE

80%

88%

88%

Somewhat Disagree

5%

4%

4%

Strongly Disagree

11%

6%

4%

NET DISAGREE

16%

10%

8%

Don’t know/ Refused

3%

2%

4%

 Decision to End One’s Life
If I am terminally ill with no
hope of recovery, the
decision about when I end
my suffering is my own to
make
Human life is sacred. Only
God should decide when my
life ends.

2002

2004

2011

2016

62%

66%

62%

71%

31%

30%

32%

22%

A majority of the registered voters polled
agrees that the decision to end one’s life
is their own to make.

6

 Agreement with Support Statements
Strongly Agree
Somewhat Disagree

Somewhat Agree
Strongly Disagree

78%

16%

76%

67%

7

18%

22%

3% 5%

2%
2%

6% 4%

 Agreement with Support Statements
Strongly Agree
Somewhat Disagree

66%

60%

8

Somewhat Agree
Strongly Disagree

23%

29%

6% 4%

5%2%

 Role of Government
The research shows a little over half (59%) of the
registered voters polled are more were concerned with
too much government intervention than not enough.
OVERALL

9

Too much government involvement in the decisions
terminally ill people make on whether or not to end their life

59%

Not enough government involvement to protect the
terminally ill from abuse or being killed against their will

12%

Neither

7%

Both equally

17%

Don’t know/ Refused

4%

 Profile of Respondents
ISLAND
Oahu
B.I.
Maui
Kauai
Lanai/ Molokai

10

OVERALL
 
70%
14%
10%
5%
1%

IDEOLOGY
Liberal
Moderate
Conservative
POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat
Independent
Republican
YEARS IN HI
Lived elsewhere
Lifetime
RELIGION (Top Responses)
Catholic
None/ Agnostic/ Atheist
Protestant
Buddhist/ Shinto
Christian Fellowship

 
40%
31%
27%
 
51%
25%
18%
 
45%
55%
 
20%
18%
11%
10%
10%

DISABLED PERSON HSE
AGE
18-34
35-49
50-64
65+
MEAN

17%
 
16%
26%
36%
21%
51.79

ETHNICITY
Caucasian
Japanese
Hawaiian
Filipino
Other

 
29%
28%
19%
12%
10%

GENDER
Male
Female

 
49%
51%

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