Exam 10: Euthanasia

Label as types of euthanasia : Voluntary Active (VA), Voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (VPO), Voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (VPEx), or (using the same names with NV for non-voluntary)Non-voluntary Active (NVA), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (NVPO), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (NVPEx). 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.

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

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

Mercy Killing is the same as euthanasia.

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

Label as types of euthanasia : Voluntary Active (VA), Voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (VPO), Voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (VPEx), or (using the same names with NV for non-voluntary)Non-voluntary Active (NVA), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (NVPO), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (NVPEx). 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.

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

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

Label as types of euthanasia : Voluntary Active (VA), Voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (VPO), Voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (VPEx), or (using the same names with NV for non-voluntary)Non-voluntary Active (NVA), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (NVPO), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (NVPEx). 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 consequentialist argument for legalizing active euthanasia and a consequentialist argument against it.

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

Label as types of euthanasia : Voluntary Active (VA), Voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (VPO), Voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (VPEx), or (using the same names with NV for non-voluntary)Non-voluntary Active (NVA), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (NVPO), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (NVPEx). 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.

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

James Rachels employs a thought experiment involving two men, Smith and Jones, who Rachels suggests demonstrate that killing someone is not necessarily morally worse than letting someone die. Describe Rachels' thought experiment and explain how it is supposed to relate to the morality of passive and active euthanasia. What conclusions does Rachels draw about the moral significance of the distinction between active and passive euthanasia?

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

Which of the following terms refers to the administering of medication with good intended effect but bad foreseen effect?

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

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

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

According to Rachels, if the motive is morally appropriate,