Using active means to bring about death is exemplified by Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act which allows physicians to write lethal doses of medication at a patient’s request.

Balancing benefits, costs, and risks is an essential part of APPLYING beneficence in medical practice.

What is the “reasonable person” standard?

Coercion violates the condition of voluntariness in autonomous action.

When a patient cannot make their own medical decisions, a surrogate is chosen based on:

Surrogate decision-making is only necessary for patients in a permanent vegetative state.

If a physician removes a respirator from a competent patient who needs it and wants to continue using it, then the action is wrong even though she only removed an artificial device and allowed nature to take its course.

Javi’s mother

McKibben lists two effects of climate change that humans are already experiencing. These effects include (check all that apply):

Javi tells the painter that when the police ask him whether he is Mexican, he replies that