Deck 8: Euthanasia

Question 1

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

A) The spirit leaves the body
B) Heart has stopped beating
C) Whole brain death has occurred
D) Person has lost all mental function

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Pointing to the liability to abuse of laws permitting active euthanasia is relying on consequentialist considerations about not taking a human life.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of extraordinary intervention?

A) Transfusion
B) Transplant
C) Antibiotics
D) Defibrillation

Answer 3

B

Question 4

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.

Question 5

Teri Schaivo's medical condition in 2005 can best be described as

A) Brain dead
B) Unconscious
C) Permanent vegetative state
D) Coma

Question 6

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

A) Active euthanasia
B) Double effect
C) Overdose
D) Physician error

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

A) Living will
B) Verbal request by adult patient
C) Request of responsible family member
D) Written request by minor patient

Question 9

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

Question 10

A person in persistent vegetative state is generally considered to be dead by most state laws.

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of ordinary intervention?

A) Transfusion
B) Transplant
C) Heart palpitation
D) Respirator

Question 12

On present practice, only if someone is brain dead may they be removed from a respirator or other life-saving equipment.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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.

Question 16

A person in a coma is not generally considered to be dead by most state laws.

Question 17

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.

Question 18

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

Question 19

Mercy Killing is the same as _________ euthanasia.

A) Passive voluntary
B) Passive involuntary
C) Active voluntary
D) Active involuntary

Question 20

Carol Carr's motivation was most likely

A) Utilitarian
B) Relativism
C) Categorical imperative
D) Natural law

Question 21

Give a consequentialist and a nonconsequentialist or deontological reason for the importance of voluntariness.

Question 22

According to Becker, the Buddha believed it was important to

A) Avoid euthanasia because it would lead to an unfortunate reincarnation
B) Have proper thoughts at the time of death
C) Pray for those who were dying
D) Fully experience one's death

Question 23

________ is a nonconsequential consideration for active voluntary euthanasia.

A) Effect on family
B) Autonomy
C) Family finances
D) Shortage of medial facilities

Question 24

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

Question 25

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) NVA, NVPO, 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.

Question 26

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) NVA, NVPO, 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.

Question 27

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) NVA, NVPO, 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.

Question 28

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

Question 29

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