{"id":1993,"date":"2008-07-13T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2008-07-13T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T19:45:17","slug":"framing_the_iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Framing The Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey commissioned by Disaboom (sorry, but the name just make me cringe) finds that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/pressRelease\/idUS101430+09-Jul-2008+BW20080709\">52% of Americans would rather be dead than severely disabled<\/a>. The survey also reveals that individuals with higher levels of income or education are more likely to prefer death over disability. Unsurprisingly, older people are likely to be more accepting of a severe disability than younger people. <\/p>\n<p>The only thing that surprises me about these results is that the percentage of respondents favoring death wasn&#8217;t higher. Otherwise, this is pretty ho-hum stuff. But I&#8217;m also a little frustrated with the survey&#8217;s methodology. Here&#8217;s how the researchers framed the question: <\/p>\n<p><b>Which would you choose: Living with a severe disability that forever alters your ability to live an independent life, or death?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I mean, that&#8217;s kind of a stark choice, isn&#8217;t it? It doesn&#8217;t get at the nuances of actually living with a severe disability. Maybe something like this would be better: <\/p>\n<p><b>Which would you choose: <\/p>\n<p>Living with a severe disability (but you could still live in your own place, hold a job, have friends, catch a movie, take a trip, maybe fall in love),<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>death?<br \/><\/b><br \/>I realize that&#8217;s an equally horrible survey question, but you get my point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey commissioned by Disaboom (sorry, but the name just make me cringe) finds that 52% of Americans would rather be dead than severely disabled. The survey also reveals that individuals with higher levels of income or education are more likely to prefer death over disability. Unsurprisingly, older people are likely to be more <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1993' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-w9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}