HCR 210 Arizona State University -Lesson 6 HCR 210 correctly answered

Lesson 6 HCR 210What is an advanced directive? - correct answer Document detailing care preferences for treatment should the patient become incapacitated, signed and witnessed at a time when the patient is competent. Also known as a living will What is durable power of attorney? - correct answer This appoints a surrogate for health affairs, gives general directions for that surrogate, and continues even when a patient has become incompetent. What is the Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act? - correct answer A law approved by the Uniform Law Commissioners in an effort to unify various state laws on end-of-life issues, this was passed by many—but not all—states. What is the Patient Self-Determination Act? - correct answer Federal law mandating that inpatient facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid money inform patients of the existence of the living will and durable power of attorney What is the consequentialist argument against suicide? - correct answer This argument fails ethically because not all suicide harms the community. What is the theological argument against suicide? - correct answer Even in this ethical framework, one who lays down his or her life for a friend or is martyred is ethically permitted to take this passively suicidal act. what is the "wedge principle" argument against suicide? - correct answer This argument fails because suicide will never become all that popular since most people are attached to their lives what is the "precious human life" argument against suicide? - correct answer Even those who endorse this framework believe that overwhelming pain or unconsciousness sometimes sap all goodness out of life.