Quiz Twenty One

Question 1

Classic utilitarian on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Answer 1

permissible because ending life would bring about the most happiness (but have to factor in everything)

Question 2

preference utilitarian on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Answer 2

the right actions are those that satisfy more of a person’s preferences overall

Question 3

rule utilitarian on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Answer 3

both

against- will lead to mercy killing without consent

for- relief of suffering

Question 4

natural law theorist on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Answer 4

not okay to kill but it is okay to give pt too many pain meds with the intention of relieving pain with death as a side effect

it is also okay to DNR and no extraordinary measures

Question 5

Kantian on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Answer 5

suicide is prohibited because it treats the person like an object and obliterates personhood.

competent pts cannot be allowed to be killed or allowed to die

veg state makes things unclear

Question 6

Brock on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Answer 6

active voluntary is okay

self-determinism, individual well-being,

not okay in cases of severe dementia or depression

doctors have the authorization that along with pt consent, allows them to remove life sustaining measures and have death result from that

Question 7

Callahan on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide

Answer 7

mercy killing is never okay

there is a moral difference between killing and letting die

letting MDs assist with suicide will lead to dire consequences and pervert the profession of medicine

euthanasia would add a new category of killing to a society that already has too many

the moral claim of self-determinism and well being

—it is a matter of mutual social decision between the one to do the killing and the one to be killed

—it is like slavery- giving away one’s life to be the play toy of another

a doctor removing care is okay because it lets the disease take them, if you remove care from a healthy person nothing would happen proving it is the disease’s fault

moral irrelevance between killing and allowing to die

the supposed paucity of evidence to show likely harmful consequences of euthanasia (legalized)

the compatibility of medicine and euthanasia