Question 1

What would be the consequence in health care if there is a right to die? That health care providers

Accepted Answer

A)   Would have a duty to hasten death when the patient requested it
B)   Must sometimes give medical assistance in dying when the patient requests it
C)   Must always give medical assistance in dying when the patient requests it
D)   None of the above B

Question 2

Which of the following measures is commonly considered to directly induce death?

Accepted Answer

A)   Euthanasia
B)   Terminal sedation
C)   Withholding life-sustaining treatment
D)   Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment A

Question 3

Which of the following best characterizes the legal status of physician-assisted death in the Netherlands? The Netherlands allows regulated

Accepted Answer

A)   Voluntary euthanasia
B)   Physician-assisted suicide
C)   Both voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
D)   None of the above C

Question 4

An argument for the moral permissibility of physician-assisted dying appeals to the fact that suicide tourism is unsafe. This argument implicitly rests on the health care providers' duties of

Accepted Answer

A)   Beneficence
B)   Nonmaleficence
C)   Autonomy
D)   All of the above

Question 5

On the topic of physician-assisted dying, the Appeal to Trust contends that

Accepted Answer

A)   Patients expect physicians to help them achieve an easier and quicker death
B)   The patient-health care provider relationship would be enhanced if patients could have assistance in dying
C)   The patient-health care provider relationship would be undermined if physicians provided assistance in dying
D)   All of the above

Question 6

That legalization of physician-assisted dying could undermine society's responsibility to protect the vulnerable is

Accepted Answer

A)   A Slippery-Slope Argument
B)   An argument from patient autonomy
C)   An appeal to professional duties
D)   None of the above

Question 7

On the topic of physician-assisted dying, the Slippery-Slope Argument contends that legalizing assisted death is likely to result in what type of abuses?

Accepted Answer

A)   Discrimination against minorities
B)   Discrimination against women
C)   Discrimination against the disabled
D)   All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following best defines the category of passive voluntary euthanasia?

Accepted Answer

A)   The hastening of a patient's death when she is in no position either to give or withhold consent
B)   The hastening of a patient's death when she is in a position to give consent but has not done so
C)   The hastening of a patient's death when she is in a position to give consent and has done so
D)   None of the above

Question 9

Which of the following is a medical intervention often considered to hasten, without causing, death?

Accepted Answer

A)   Withholding life-sustaining treatment
B)   Physician-assisted suicide
C)   Active euthanasia
D)   All of the above

Question 10

Physician-assisted suicide is illegal in most common law jurisdictions. Those who want to change that might bring certain main considerations to lawmakers' attention. In your view, what should these be?

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Question 11

A patient's unmitigated suffering or loss of bodily autonomy is invoked as a reason for the moral permissibility of physician-assisted death by

Accepted Answer

A)   The Appeal to Trust
B)   The Argument from Mercy
C)   The Slippery-Slope Argument
D)   The right-to-die Argument

Question 12

Dr. Kevorkian helped patients die by practicing

Accepted Answer

A)   Strictly regulated assisted suicide
B)   Strictly regulated euthanasia
C)   Unregulated assisted suicide and euthanasia
D)   All of the above

Question 13

Explain the difference between voluntary, nonvoluntary, and involuntary euthanasia, and provide one reason for the passive-versus-active euthanasia distinction and one against it.

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Question 14

Discuss whether compassion argues for or against the moral permissibility of physician-assisted death. What about trust?

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Question 15

Some think that voluntary active euthanasia is morally equivalent to physician-assisted suicide. Find a reason for and one against this view and discuss which, if either, has more weight.

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Question 16

On the topic of physician-assisted dying, the tendency in the US has been toward legalizing

Accepted Answer

A)   Physician-assisted suicide
B)   Voluntary active euthanasia
C)   Involuntary euthanasia
D)   All of the above

Question 17

If the Appeal to Mercy is sound, it follows that voluntary active euthanasia is morally

Accepted Answer

A)   Permissible
B)   Not only permissible but obligatory
C)   Forbidden
D)   Optional

Question 18

Provide a slippery-slope argument against the legal permissibility of assisted death. Does your argument commit you to its moral impermissibility?

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Question 19

Given the view prevalent in US courts, active voluntary euthanasia amounts to

Accepted Answer

A)   A forbidden deliberate killing of a patient
B)   A permissible mercy killing of a patient
C)   A mandatory intervention honoring the patient's wishes
D)   None of the above

Exam 8: Medically Assisted Death