LESSON 17 Flashcards
Deciding when it is ‘appropriate to provide medical care to babies with disabilities or serious health issues’
Baby Doe
Consider ‘withholding of medical care for handicapped infants’, reglect
Baby Doe Regulation
Someone gives their organ to help someone else
Organ Donation
‘Help regulate organ donation’ which make sure that the organ donation is done in a fair and rightful way
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Refers to ‘deliberately ending someone’s life’, usually to relieve suffering
Euthanasia
Doctors sometimes perform euthanasia when it’s ‘requested by people who have a terminal illness and are in a lot of pain’
Euthanasia
It is sometimes called as Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS)
Assisted Suicide
It means a ‘doctor knowingly helps someone’ end their life
Physician Assisted Suicide
The doctor will provide people with a drug that they can take to end their life
Physician Assisted Suicide
What example of drug can be taken to end life
Lethal dose of opiods
What type of euthanasia: a doctor directly ending someone’s life
Active Euthanasia
‘Purposely giving’ someone a lethal dose of euthanasia
Active euthanasia
Sometimes described as ‘withholding or limiting life sustaining treatments’ so that a person passes more quickly
Passive Euthanasia
Focuses on ‘keeping people as comfortable as possible’ at the end of their life
Palliative care
If someone makes a conscious decision to ‘seek help with ending their life’
Voluntary Euthanasia
