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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. Relatively common or standard measures of life support are always to be considered ordinary means of life support.
a. True
b. False
2. Nonvoluntary euthanasia means causing death in violation of the patient’s consent.
a. True
b. False
3. Removing a person from a respirator after he has been declared dead according to whole brain death criteria is a case of
passive euthanasia.
a. True
b. False
4. According to a broad definition of euthanasia, only so-called active euthanasia or mercy killing should be called
euthanasia.
a. True
b. False
5. If a person asks to be disconnected from certain life support equipment, and this is done, this would be a case of
voluntary active euthanasia.
a. True
b. False
6. Administering a lethal dose to a person who requests it is termed voluntary active euthanasia.
a. True
b. False
7. A “Durable Power of Attorney” is substantially the same as a living will, for they both are documents designed to
enable one to write in advance what treatment one wants and what one doesn’t want when dying and unable to speak.
a. True
b. False
8. Physician-assisted suicide is suicide that results from a physician’s prescription of lethal medication.
a. True
b. False
9. Some laws in the United States allow for nonvoluntary passive euthanasia.
a. True
b. False
10. To give pain medication in order to relieve pain, knowing that there is also a chance that the patient might be so
weakened as to die from the medication, is generally considered a case of active euthanasia.
a. True
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b. False
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
11. All the following are recognized as legal grounds for withdrawing life support except
a. Living will.
b. Verbal request by adult patient.
c. Request of responsible family member.
d. Written request by minor patient.
12. Mercy Killing is the same as _____________ euthanasia.
a. Passive voluntary
b. Passive involuntary
c. Active voluntary
d. Active involuntary
13. Which of the following terms refers to the administering of medication with good intended effect but bad foreseen
effect?
a. Active euthanasia
b. Double effect
c. Overdose
d. Physician error
14. What is the condition the American Medical Association has defined as dead?
a. The spirit leaves the body.
b. Heart has stopped beating.
c. Whole brain death has occurred.
d. Person has lost all mental function.
15. Terri Schiavo’s medical condition in 2005 can best be described as
a. Brain dead.
b. Unconscious.
c. Permanent vegetative state.
d. Coma.
16. Which of the following is a nonconsequentialist consideration for active voluntary euthanasia.
a. Effect on family
b. Autonomy
c. Family finances
d. Shortage of medical facilities
17. According to Rachels, if the motive is morally appropriate,
a. passive euthanasia is not morally worse than active euthanasia.
b. active euthanasia is not morally worse than passive euthanasia.
c. the action itself is inconsequential.
d. physician-assisted suicide is ethical.
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Indicate one or more answer choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
18. Which of the following considerations determines whether a measure is ordinary or extraordinary?
a. whether the measure is likely to benefit the patient
b. whether the measure represents common medical practice
c. whether the treatment is voluntary
d. whether the treatment is legal
19. Critics of the distinction between ordinary versus extraordinary measures have complained that the idea of what
counts as extraordinary is
a. immoral
b. heroic
c. vain
d. vague
Label as types of euthanasia: Voluntary Active (VA), Voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (VPO),
Voluntary Passive withholding Extraordinary Measures (VPEx), or (using the same names with NV for non-voluntary)
Non-voluntary Active (NVA), Non-voluntary Passive withholding Ordinary Measures (NVPO), Non-voluntary Passive
withholding Extraordinary Measures (NVPEx).
20. A dying patient asks that no more chemotherapy be given because it is doing nothing but prolonging her death, which
is inevitable in a short time anyway.
21. Parents of a newborn who is dying no matter what is done ask that doctors not do anything else to prolong its life.
22. A person who has terminal cancer takes an overdose of sleeping pills so that he will be able to die when and how he
wishes.
23. A person who has serious lung problems and has been temporarily placed on a respirator asks that she be removed
from a respirator that is causing her great discomfort.
24. Give a deontological argument for legalizing active euthanasia and a deontological argument against it.
25. James Rachels employs a thought experiment involving two men, Smith and Jones, who Rachels suggests demonstrate
that killing someone is not necessarily morally worse than letting someone die. Describe Rachels’ thought experiment and
explain how it is supposed to relate to the morality of passive and active euthanasia. What conclusions does Rachels draw
about the moral significance of the distinction between active and passive euthanasia?
26. Give a consequentialist argument for legalizing active euthanasia and a consequentialist argument against it.
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Answer Key
1. False
2. False
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