ubject such as that which is provided by Final Exit. In Humphry's words, "the practical reality is that doctors phone me at least once a week asking for the dosages" (p. B1). Just as there are many who are opposed to the information and ideas in Humphry's book, there are many others who have praised it. Many people feel that the laws regarding euthanasia should be changed. They feel that terminally ill people should be given the option to end their own lives in order to avoid the pain, suffering, indignity, and financial burden of remaining alive. In fact, there is a great deal of evidence to show that attitudes on this issue are changing over the course of time. In the mid-1970's, only 41 percent of the respondents in a national poll said they believed that a terminally ill person with a hopeless condition should be allowed to commit suicide. By 1990, "that figure had risen to 66 percent" (Ames, Wilson, Sawhil, Glick and King, 1991, p. 41). Many people have come to this opinion by asking what they themselves would do if faced with a hopeless te
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