LANCASHIRE has the second-highest rate of people who have experience of hospice care, a survey reveals.
A YouGov poll said of 189 people from the county surveyed, 45per cent said they had been to a hospice.
The findings, which come after a high-profile right-to-die debate in the House of Lords, put the county second out of 10 UK regions.
The South West came top with 54per cent.
Sixty-four per cent thought such care allows a useful and peaceful end to life, and 77per cent thought the law should be changed to allow terminally-ill people to choose medical help to die.
A spokesman for pro-euthanasia pressure group Dignity in Dying said: "It is clear that the people of Lancashire are among the most knowledgeable in the country about hospice and palliative care, and they still strongly support a right to die well for terminally-ill people."
The Lords debated a bill that would allow doctors to help terminally-ill people to die.
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