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1. What is a good death according to Maggie Little?
2. What is euthanasia? What are the kinds of euthanasia? What kind of euthanasia is considered illegal in the United States?
3. Explain the major arguments for voluntary euthanasia.
4. Identify and explain the two ethical values which, according to Brock, support the ethical permissibility of euthanasia. Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
5. Discuss briefly and assess Brock's responses to each argument against permitting euthanasia. (Remember, Dan Brock is not against euthanasia, that's why he is responding to arguments against euthanasia.)
a. That when physicians are allowed to perform active euthanasia, the moral center of medicine would collapse and as a result, people would stop trusting and respecting them as healers.
b. That permitting euthanasia would weaken society's commitment to provide optimal care for dying patients.
c. That permitting euthanasia will threaten the progress made in securing the rights of patients or their surrogates to decide about and to refuse life-sustaining treatment.