Question

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1.      A: Coming from the Greek, which term for assisted suicide originally meant "a good death"?   

Allowing someone to die
Mercy Death
Mercy Killing
Euthanasia  

B: A patient whose further curative treatment has no purpose, so the patient is then given a natural death in peace and comfort is known as:    

Allowing someone to die
Mercy Death
Mercy Killing
Euthanasia  

C: Someone taking a direct action to terminate a patient’s life without the patient knowing it is considered:

Allowing someone to die 
Mercy Death
Mercy Killing
Euthanasia  

D:What is known as a direct action taken to terminate a patient’s life because the patient has requested it?

 

Allowing someone to die
Mercy Death
Mercy Killing
Euthanasia 

E: In health care, irreversible brain damage to the patient is also known as:

 

Persistent Vegetative State
Irreversible comma
Brain death
None of the above

F: In health care, what typically results from severe damage to the neocortex which controls the cognitive functions of the brain?

 

Persistent Vegetative State 
Irreversible comma
Cerebral death
None of the above

G: What is an example of an advanced directive in health care.

The living will
The Natural Death Act Declaration 
The Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care 
All of the above

H: Which type of abortion is synonymous with a miscarriage?

 

An induced abortion
An amniocentesis 
A spontaneous abortion
A chorionic villus sampling 

Answer 1

1. A. Euthanasia [ it means helping a critically ill person die by removing all life support systems. This is done to save the person from unbearable suffering and when there is no hope of any recovery or improvement in the patient's condition.

B. Mercy death

C. Mercy killing

D. Mercy death

E. Irreversible comma [ when the brain cells have died and cannot be revived again]

F. Persistent vegetative state [ when the other life signs are functioning normally but the brain does not respond ]

G. The living will [ it is a legal document that a person makes to spell out his/her decisions about end-of-life care ahead of death.]

H. A spontaneous abortion [ when the fetus is terminated naturally before the completion of full term ]