Question 1

Callahan believes the need for euthanasia is reduced by high-quality _________ care (i.e., "that part of medicine that aims to reduce pain and suffering").

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Question 2

The anonymous Dutch survey on euthanasia, says Callahan, revealed that nearly one-third of the reported euthanasia deaths were cases of _________ euthanasia, where a life was terminated without explicit request.

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Question 3

Michael Gill states, "The value the Oregon law is intended to promote is the _________ of human beings" (i.e., roughly, the ability to make one's own decisions).

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Question 4

Gill maintains that "to respect a person's autonomy is, first and foremost, to respect a person's ability to make _________ decisions" (i.e., decisions that determine the course of your life).

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Question 5

Gill describes Kass, Pellegrino, and Callahan as appealing to the law of _________ effect to explain how they can consistently endorse the practice of withdrawing life-sustaining treatment for terminally ill patients.

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Question 6

According to Gill, the Oregon law has two criteria that a patient must meet before physician-assisted suicide is a legal option. The patient must be terminally ill, and he or she must be _________ (i.e., capable of making a rational and informed decision).

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Question 7

According to Velleman, in some circumstances, a lack of options can be a(n) _________.

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Question 8

Velleman believes that, to avoid harm, we are sometimes required to _________ options.

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Question 9

Velleman's argument against an institutional right to die proceeds on _________ rather than on Kantian grounds.

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Question 10

According to Velleman, to value a patient's capacity for self-determination is to accord it _________.

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Quiz 8: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide