Females by nature have a more sympathetic attitude toward suicide. Dian Denning G, Conwell, Yeates and Chris Cox from their article Method choice, intent, and gender in completed suicide. So sex attitudes towards suicide itself differ in the method they view suicide and the methods they employ for carrying it out. Suicide as the option for terminally ill patients has received different attitudes from sectors of society. Younger people tend to be more in favor of euthanasia or mercy killing than the older population sector.
Males specially view euthanasia as a more practical solution to end someone s pain.
Also an interesting factor that makes people believe that euthanasia is the best solution are those that have someone close go through the excruciating suffering that is involved with a terminal illness. This informs us why among the younger generations are more sympathetic toward euthanasia. . As David K Reynolds, Richard A. Kalish, and Norman L. Farebrow in a Cross-Ethnic Study of Suicide Attitudes and Expectations in the United States inform us that within racial groups Mexican Americans view that suicide for personal reasons, euthanasia and shameful reasons is wrong. People like that are crazy and dishonor the family. Attitudes Toward Suicide, Past, Present and Future tell us More educated individuals are more likely to view suicide as an ill than can be prevented through professional help, in short they tend to view suicide in a more sympathetic way.