Reference no: EM133485030
Question
1. According to the UDDA, which option best describes the general guidelines for declaration of death in the United States?
The irreversible cessation of all cardio-pulmonary function.
The irreversible cessation of all brain function
The irreversible cessation of higher brain function.
Both A and B
Both B and C
A, B and C
2. According to Sulmasy in his article "The Rule of Double Effect: Clearing up the Double talk," the rule of double effect is appropriate to be used in cases of the removal of treatment (such as the removal of artificial nutrition and hydration).
True
False
3. According to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, artificial nutrition and hydration is extraordinary care in patients in a persistent vegetative state.
True
False
4. According to Truog, patients who have irreversibly lost all function of their entire brain should be considered validly dead because "death is the loss of the functioning of the organism "as a whole."
True
False
5. According to the UDDA, patients who have been diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state are brain dead.
True
False
6. Physician assisted suicide is a form of active voluntary euthanasia.
True
False
7. Because of the UDDA, all states in the US have the exact same laws regarding brain death. Meaning that a person who is considered dead in one state would always be considered dead in another.
True
False