quiz 6 Flashcards
Termination of life support is generally acceptable under the right conditions:
If a competent adult patient requests it in writing or orally.
b.
If the treatment is futile or clearly of no benefit
c.
If the burden to the patient outweighs the benefits.
Death is a conquered enemy that need not always be resisted for the following reasons:
When treatment is no longer helpful to the patient
b.
When treatment is no longer desired by the patient
c.
When treatment is more burdensome than beneficial to the patient
In Physician-assisted-suicide is a second form of involvement in dying in which the physician
Provides the medication and instructs the patient on how much medication to ingest.
b.
Provides the medical means for the patient to take his or her own life.
In medical ethics, patients become incompetent to make treatment decisions when they
lose consciousness
b.
fall into permanent vegetative state.
c.
Are in extreme pain
Removal of life support includes the following:
none/not Euthanasia
b.
Assistance suicide
The principle that states that an unintended but foreseen negative consequence of a specific action is known as
the law of double effect
What is critical in distinguishing between Termination of Life Support (TLS) and Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS)?
the intent
If assisted suicide and euthanasia are legalized, the elderly and seriously ill could face an unenviable situation in which they will have to justify their continued existence. Euthanasia will not be restricted to the terminally ill but would be extended to:
People with varying quality-of-life circumstances
b.
The non-terminally ill such as people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Theologically, death was not part of God’s original design for human beings.
true
Termination of Life support generally refers to withdrawing or withholding medical treatment from a seriously ill patient and allowing the patient to die
true
Removal of life support constitutes euthanasia or assisted suicide.
false
There is no significant moral difference between withdrawing a treatment and withholding the same treatment.
true
The Bible seems clear that the timing and manner of death belongs to God alone
true
Eugenics and Euthanasia share some points of commonality—namely the notion that some people are “useless eaters”.
true
Euthanasia refers to the indirect and intentional efforts of a physician or other medical professional to help a dying patient die
false
The Physician-Assisted Suicide proponents insist that administering euthanasia or assisting patients in suicide involves actually killing a person
false
“The effect” advocates for prescribing a sufficient dosage of medication with possible side effects that hasten though not causing the death of the patient.
true
The American Medical Association still opposes Physician-Assisted Suicide as inconsistent with the Hippocratic Oath and the physician’s role as a healer.
true
When the feeding tube is removed, the cause of death is still the underlying disease or condition that is preventing the person from taking food and water by mouth.
true
Most bioethicists hold that it is ethically permissible to withdraw medically provided nutrition and hydration from patients in a permanent vegetative state if there is evidence of the patient’s wishes to do so
True
