Ethics- Quiz 10

Some laws in the United States allow for non-voluntary passive euthanasia.

A "durable power of attorney" is substantially the same as living will, for they both are documents designed to enable one to write in advance what treatment one wants and what one doesn't want when dying and unable to speak.

Removing a person from a respirator after he has been declared dead according to whole brain death criteria is a case of passive euthanasia.

Physician-assisted suicide is suicide that results from a physician's prescription of lethal medication.

Administering a lethal dose to a person who request it is termed voluntary active euthanasia.

Terri Schiavo's medical condition in 2005 can be best described as...

One well-known advocate and practitioner of physician-assisted suicide was...

To give pain medication in order to relieve pain, knowing that there is also a chance that the patient might be so weekend as to die from the medication, is it generally considered a case of active euthanasia.

Is physician-assisted suicide legal in the state of Texas?

What is the condition of the American medical Association as defined as dead?