Ethics Chapter 10 – Flashcards

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

Which of the following is an example of extraordinary intervention?

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

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.

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

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

Terri Schiavo's medical condition can be described as

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.

Which of the following is an example of ordinary intervention?

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

____ is a nonconsequential consideration for active voluntary euthanasia.

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

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

Mercy Killing is the same as ____ euthanasia.