Entry:

”Facing Death,” The Public Perspective, 12 (March/April, 2001), 13-19.


Abstract:

Responses about attitudes toward death and the most desirable conditions to die in vary greatly between the average American and the mentally ill. Both groups, however, share a common belief in the afterlife.

GSS Years:

1977, 1998

Other Data Sets:

LAT 1999; Time/CNN 2000; Gallup 1997

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
SUICIDE1

SUICIDE IF INCURABLE DISEASE

SUICIDE2

SUICIDE IF BANKRUPT

SUICIDE3

SUICIDE IF DISHONORED FAMILY

SUICIDE4

SUICIDE IF TIRED OF LIVING