MOdule 10 Quiz

A "Durable Power of Attorney" is substantially the same as a 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.

according to rachels if the motive is morally appropriate.

According to a broad definition of euthanasia, only so-called active euthanasia or mercy killing should be called euthanasia.

administering a lethal dose to a person who requests it is termed voluntary active euthanasia

All the following are recognized as legal grounds for withdrawing life support except

Critics of the distinction between ordinary versus extraordinary measures have complained that the idea of what counts as extraordinary is​

If a person asks to be disconnected from certain life support equipment, and this is done, this is a case of what would be considered voluntary active euthanasia

Mercy Killing is the same as _________ euthanasia.

Nonvoluntary euthanasia means causing death in violation of the patient's consent.

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

Relatively common or standard measures of life support are always to be considered ordinary means of life support.

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

Some laws in the United States allow for nonvoluntary passive euthanasia.

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

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

What is the condition the American Medical Association has defined as dead?

Which of the following considerations determines whether a measure is ​ordinary or extraordinary?

Which of the following is a nonconsequentialist consideration for active voluntary euthanasia.

_________ refers to administering medication with good intended effect and bad foreseen effect.

an example of Voluntary Active euthanasia would be: A person who has terminal cancer takes an overdose of sleeping pills so that he will be able to die when and how he wishes.