Chapter 10: Euthanasia And Physician Assisted Suicide

Question 1

Active Euthanasia

Answer 1

Performing an action that directly causes someone to die; “mercy killing”

Question 2

Passive Euthanasia

Answer 2

Directly or indirectly brining about the death of another person for that person’s sake

Question 3

Involuntary Euthanasia

Answer 3

Bringing about someone’s death against her will or without asking for her consent while she is competent to decide.

How is this different than murder?

Question 4

Non-voluntary Euthanasia

Answer 4

Euthanasia performed when patients are not competent to choose it for themselves and have not previously disclosed their preferences

Question 5

Passive Euthanasia

Answer 5

Allowing someone to die by not doing something that would prolong life

Question 6

Physician Assisted Suicide

Answer 6

A patient’s taking his or her own life with the aid of a physician

Question 7

Voluntary Euthanasia

Answer 7

Euthanasia performed when competent patients voluntarily request or agree to it.

Question 8

Terminal Sedation

Answer 8

Giving a dying patient extremely high doses of analgesics to the point of unconsciousness and accelerated death