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Table 3 Personal reasoning: attitudes towards value statements about organ donation

From: From motivation to acceptability: a survey of public attitudes towards organ donation in Denmark

 

Disagree/strongly disagree (%)

Neither agree nor disagree (%)

Agree/strongly agree (%)

Undecided (%)

I think of organ donation as something you do to help others.

1.2

2.2

96.6

I think of organ donation as an unpleasant sacrifice.

83.6

9.7

5.6

1.1

I like the idea that my body will be useful after my death.

5.2

7.3

85.8

1.7

I believe you have the duty to be an organ donor if you are willing to receive an organ.

15.3

14.1

68.6

2

My choice about organ donation reflects what I believe my relatives prefer.

37.4

20.7

35.6

6.3

I am afraid of not really being dead when the doctors remove the organs.

79.3

5.7

12.7

2.3

I find it important that my body goes untouched into the grave.

82.6

7.9

7.9

1.5