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| occurs when someone performs an action that results in the intended death of the patient |
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| actions that lead to a patients death when the intention is not the patients death |
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| a fetus which develops without a cerebral cortex and an incomplete cranium |
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| total irreversible cessation of the entire brain, including the brain stem |
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| irreversible cessation of the function of the heart and lungs |
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| state of unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened |
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| epistemological concepts that relate ways which we know whether death exists or not |
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| a law in OR that allows for the practice of physician-assisted suicide seeing that very specific circumstances are met |
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| an ontological concept describing the reality of what death is |
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| the voluntary and intentional ending of a person's life |
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| an intervention which won't achieve its intended effects or would cause serious burdens or both |
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| treatments that has zero benefits |
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| a way to understand the value or worth of human life. A way to describe the moral status of individuals, specifically a way to describe where someone is a member of the moral community. |
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| euthanasia of patients when the patient has explicitly requested not to be euthanized |
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| a person is dead when his or her soul separates from his or her body. |
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| treatments that are morally obligatory because they maintain or improve health without serious burdens |
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| the care given to those nearing the end of their lives with focus on pain management instead of "curing" the ailment; i.e. hospice care |
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| achieving the intended death of a patients by omission or not performing an action |
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| Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) |
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| a state of post-coma unresponsiveness |
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| physician assisted suicide |
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| a doctor helps or assists patient in their suicide by providing medicine and/or information regarding the death |
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| principle of double effect |
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| sets down the conditions whereby unintended bad effects can be risked to achieve an intended good. |
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| a measure of the value of personal life, not purely biological life |
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| euthanasia of a patient where that has patient requested death |
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