Exam 10: Euthanasia

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

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.

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

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

The primary determinant of whether a case should be labeled active or passive euthanasia is whether or not there is any action involved.

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

A person who has serious lung problems and has been temporarily placed on a respirator asks that she be removed from a respirator that is causing her great discomfort.

Euthanasia laws in the U.S.allow for nonvoluntary passive euthanasia.

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

Since blood transfusions are now common,they are always to be considered ordinary means of life support.

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 for one is actively doing something.

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.

________ is a nonconsequential consideration for active voluntary euthanasia.

Parents of a newborn who is dying no matter what is done ask that doctors not do anything else to prolong its life.

Give a deontological argument for legalizing active euthanasia and a deontological argument against it.

Give a consequentialist argument for legalizing active euthanasia and a consequentialist argument against it.

A dying patient asks that no more chemotherapy be given because it is doing nothing but prolonging her death,which is inevitable in a short time anyway.

Mercy Killing is the same as _________ euthanasia.

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.

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