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In politics, polling is the surveying of public opiniin on an issue. In metallurgy, polling is the refining of the unprocessed metal mass produced impure by its have oxides. In telecommunication, the term polling potty mean: #Network control in which a control station invites tributary stations to transmit in the sequence specified by the control station, #In point-to-point or even multipoint communication, a run whereby stations come invited one after another to transmit, #In automated HF radio systems, a system for with measurements of & reporting channel quality. #The successive interrogation of devices for various purposes, like avoiding contention, determining operational status, or even determining readiness to send or receive data. Computer science shares this definition of the word. In Computer science #Actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. In arboriculture, to trim a tree In agriculture, to cut off hair, horns etc of cattle

Within its origin, a word comes from either Middle Dutch polle, top of the head.

Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - "Eurispes: 60 pct of Italians Approve Euthanasia"
Survey results indicate a significant increase in Italian support for end-of-life choice in the last 15 years.

Bay of Plenty Times - "53% support mercy killing"
A regional poll in New Zealand finds majority support for legalizing assisted dying.

Surgery Door - "Doctors back assisted suicide"
A Voluntary Euthanasia Society survey found that more than half the physicians in the United Kingdom support the right to a physician assisted death for the terminally ill.

Houston Chronicle - "Poll: Many doctors back assisted suicide"
A Baylor College of Medicine study finds that 44.5 percent of U.S. physicians support assisted dying.

Dispatch Online - "'Many doctors in SA favour mercy killing'"
South African Law Commission member Willem Landman says that informal surveys document physician support for the legalization of voluntary euthanasia.

Study puts face on patients in assisted suicide
An Oregon Health & Science University study identifies the personality traits of those who have hastened their death under the Oregon Death with Dignity law.

Death with Dignity National Center: Public Opinion
Cites various polls of people in the United States supportive of the right to die.