P-42 Moral Reasoning and Judgment About Ending Life Revisited: Influences of Religiosity, Generation, and Resilience

This study examines age, religiosity, and resilience as predictors of moral reasoning and judgments about ending life issues including suicide, physician-assisted suicide, active euthanasia, and mercy-killing. Suicide refers to individuals ending their own life. Physician-assisted suicide refers to medical professionals providing the means to end a life, but not administering the fatal dose. Active euthanasia refers to medical professionals administering a fatal dose. Mercy killing refers to a loved one ending a life in an act of compassion. Multiple regression analysis is expected to show lower age, resilience, and religiosity as predictors of permissive moral reasoning and judgments