Which of the Following Is an Example of Passive Euthanasia

question 117

Multiple Choice

Which of the following 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.

Grasp the impact of chronic diseases on mental and physical health.

Understand the definition and impact of disabilities.

Distinguish between age-related and ageing-related conditions.

Identify strategies for managing the social and economic consequences of early-onset disabilities.

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Definitions:

Action Potentials

Quick, electrical impulses that travel down a neuron's axon, allowing neurons to communicate with each other.

Synaptic Interval

The gap between neurons across which neurotransmitters travel to transmit signals from one neuron to the next.

Synaptic Vesicles

Small organelles within neurons that store neurotransmitters, which are released into the synaptic cleft during neuronal communication.

Postsynaptic Cell

The neuron or cell that receives a signal (neurotransmitter) from another neuron at a synapse during the process of communication between neurons.