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Title: People opposed to euthanasia practices in the Netherlands maintain that these practices Post by: RUNNER84 on Mar 17, 2018 People opposed to euthanasia practices in the Netherlands maintain that these practices
a. still involve underreporting despite the implementation of a formal notification procedure b. have led to documented cases in which patients who have not given their consent have had their lives ended by physicians c. have permitted the gradual extension of assisted suicide to widening groups of patients after it was legally permitted for patients designated as terminally ill d. all of these e. none of these Question 2 People favoring euthanasia practices in the Netherlands maintain that these practices a. apply almost exclusively to terminally ill persons b. account for only a small fraction of deaths in the country c. is performed in less than one-third of the instances in which it is requested d. all of these e. none of these Question 3 Of the five religious perspectives on the morality of euthanasia presented in this chapter, a. only Christianity approves of active euthanasia b. all seem to allow for the discontinuing of therapies that only prolong sufferingc Islam demands that heroic measures always be used to maintain someone's lifed only Hinduism has a clear statement of the moral appropriateness of ending someone's life e. all approve of assisted suicide but disapprove of any form of euthanasia Question 4 Which of the following is most likely to be correct? a. according to some Jewish beliefs, life is of infinite value; this precludes participation in assisted suicide or euthanasia b. some Hindus believe that the law of karma requires that one's life-threatening illness must be suffered through to pay one's karmic debt, and thus euthanasia is prohibited c. in Buddhist thought, personal autonomy cannot be used to override the basic goodness of life, so that preferring death to life is never morally acceptable d. according to some Christian beliefs, suffering may be redemptive, but that does not preclude doing what is needed to relieve that suffering e. all of these Title: People opposed to euthanasia practices in the Netherlands maintain that these practices Post by: Modorfiel on Mar 17, 2018 D C B E |