M09 Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die Discussion
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What to Do
For this week’s assignment, I want you to post an original question for your classmates to answer related to the topics covered in Chapter 9 (please note you do not need to answer your own question). Clearly identify one concept from the reading (bold and underline the concept only, not your analysis, definition, etc. – you’ll find these listed under Module 09 Study Resources and demonstrate your comprehension and application of the chapter material. Your question can come from the supplemental materials I have posted or any outside research you have conducted related to the chapter material. Make sure you correctly cite your sources in APA format and provide the source citation on a reference page. Please be mindful and respectful in the language you use
below is the MODULE 09 STUDY RESOURCES
Key Terms:
Advance directive: A document that specifies the type of health care individuals wish to receive should they not be in a position to express their wishes in a critical situation.
Assisted death: An action taken by one person to end the life of another person, at that other person?s request.
Competence: The mental ability to make a rational decision about important matters in one?s life (a law concept).
Declaration of Geneva: In contrast to the ancient Hippocratic Oath, this modern code has been used by the World Medical Association since shortly after World War II.
Double effect: A decision that has its intended but also an unintended effect. Example: Increasing opiate dosage may have the intended effect of alleviating pain but also the unintended effect of hastening death.
EEG (electroencephalogram) tracings: Electrical activity of the brain as displayed on a moving scroll or computer monitor, using an electroencephalogram.
Euthanasia: Originally, an easy death, one without suffering. Later applied also to actions taken to end a life. ?Active? euthanasia involves an action that ends the life; ?passive? euthanasia refers to withdrawal or withholding of actions that might prolong life.
Hippocratic Oath: A code offering ethical principles for the practice of medicine, attributed to a Greek physician of the fifth century B.C.
Informed consent: The principle that patients should be provided with sufficient information to make decisions for or against accepting a treatment.
Liberty principle: Individuals are free to make their own decisions and exercise their own rights except in ways that have been specifically reserved for the state.
Mercy killing: At one time, the more common term for what is now referred to as assisted death.
Orbitoria: Clinics or centers at which assisted death would be provided at patients? request and in which biomedical studies would be conducted.
Slippery slope argument: Holds that accepting assisted death for any person will increase the demand and approval of death for many other people.
Terminal sedation: Administering drugs to dying patients with severe pain or other stressful symptoms with the purpose of keeping them in a deep sedative or comatose state until death. Also known informally as ?slow euthanasia?.
Ventilator: A machine that provides respiration for people who are unable to breathe adequately on their own.
