Objective: To understand and analyze the cognition of col ege students on euthanasia. Methods: A random sample of undergraduate students in Wuhan Polytechnic University was surveyed with euthanasia questionnaire. Results: 62.6% of 679 questionnaires agreed that euthanasia is painless death. For "own life being in danger without cure hope", 53.1% of the population with disease history and 62.0% of the population without disease history "were wil ing to choose euthanasia". The support rate of passive euthanasia in al respondents just was 23.4%. The indications of euthanasia being more recognized...