Today, Jack Kervorkian (a.k.a. "Dr. Death"), who helped more than 100 terminally ill people end their lives, leaves prison on parole. Opinions about his work are sharply divided, and often depend on how the questions are worded.

In the poll described above, which emphasizes severe pain and allowing doctors to assist patients, 56 percent supported "doctor-assisted" suicide. But in a recent AP/Ipsos poll, just 48 percent of respondents said it should be "legal for doctors to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by giving them a prescription for fatal drugs," while 44 percent said this should be illegal. (Source: The Gallup Organization, May 2007)

Nearly nine in ten American workers believe their jobs are secure.  One of the reasons we may hear so much these days about economic anxiety is that 50 percent of Americans say they know someone who has been laid off or lost a job in the in the last six months.