Which Situation Is an Example of Passive Euthanasia

question 47

Multiple Choice

Which situation is an example of passive euthanasia?

• A) A doctor gives a patient a prescription for a lethal medication.
• B) A husband injects his wife with an overdose of her medication,without her requesting this of him.
• C) A patient asks his adult child to give him a lethal injection.
• D) A doctor does not resuscitate a man who stops breathing after seeing that he had a DNR order.

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