An Invitation to Health 16th Edition by Dianne Hales

Exercise 6

Driving home from a friend's twenty-first birthday party, 18-year-old Rick has had too much to drink. As he crosses the dividing line on the two-lane road, the driver of an oncoming car-a young mother with two young children in the backseat-swerves to avoid an accident. She hits a concrete wall and dies instantly, but her children survive. Rick has no record of drunk driving. Should he go to prison? Is he guilty of manslaughter? How would you feel if you were the victim's husband? If you were Rick's friend?