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Russ Fine - answer-A disability advocate and director of the Injury Control Research Center at the University of Alabama
Judge Edward Johnson - answer-Ruled in McAfee's favor for a physicians assisted suicide, he declared that no civil or criminal penalty would attach to any doctor who helped.
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Larry McAfee(1985-1995), Brittany Maynard(2013-2014),
Chapter 2, Elizabeth Bouvia (1983-PRESENT)
Russ Fine - answer-A disability advocate and director of the Injury Control Research Center at
the University of Alabama
Judge Edward Johnson - answer-Ruled in McAfee's favor for a physicians assisted suicide, he
declared that no civil or criminal penalty would attach to any doctor who helped.
The Switch - answer-A CBS movie portraying the accident and fight of McAfee in 1993
1989 (McAfee) - answer-McAfee was accepted and transferred to Briarcliff Nursing Home in the
suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
1989 (McAfee) - answer-McAfee filed suit in federal court to exercise his right to die and was
granted it by Judge Edward Johnson
1993 (McAfee) - answer-A kink in McAfee's caused urine to back up causing toxicity and high
blood pressure eventually leading to two terrible strokes leaving him with just a small amount
of short-term memory.
1995 (McAfee) - answer-McAfee dies 6 years after his victorious ruling in court, but not because
of his own decision but after being comatose for many months
April 2013 (Mynard) - answer-Maynard is diagnosed with a kind of brain cancer called
glioblastoma
January 2014 (Mynard) - answer-Surgeons debulked Maynard's tumor, removing parts of her
temporal lobe.
April 2014 (Maynard) - answer-Expert doctors and physicians give Maynard six months to live
because her cancer was still spreading inside her skull
November 1, 2014 (Maynard) - answer-Maynard ends her life by using drugs prescribed by an
Oregon physician because her quality of life had worsened with fatigue, headaches, and
confusion.
Quinlan decision - answer-Quinlan became unconscious after she consumed Valium along with
alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma, followed by a persistent vegetative state.
After doctors, under threat from prosecutors, refused the request of her parents, Joseph and
Julia Quinlan, to disconnect Quinlan's respirator, which the parents believed constituted
extraordinary means of prolonging her life, her parents filed suit to disconnect Quinlan from
, her ventilator. In 1975, columnest Nat Hentoff predicted that this decision would bring on an
empirical slippery slope
Empirical Slippery Slope - answer-if x is legalized, there will be unavoidable consequences such
as abuse or extensions of legalizing y
Conceptual Slippery Slope - answer-Once a small change is made in a moral rule, other changes
will logically follow
terminal sedation - answer-administering large doses of sedatives to a patient when their
suffering cannot be relieved and death is only hours or days away. Doctrine of double effect
Hemlock Society - answer-national organization that promoted the right to die for terminally ill
persons, calling for legalizing assistance for those who decide to take their own lives, now
merged with Compassion and Choices
SUPPORT study - answer-Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and
Risks of Treatments. This study discovered competent people do not accurately predict what
they will later find unacceptable as quality of life.
Adaptation effect - answer-After six months or so, a patient that was disabled from an accident,
adapt their views about acceptable quality of life
Hubris - answer-excessive pride or self-confidence
Hippocratic Oath - answer-An promise made new physicians to treat all people fairly, and to
seek to preserve life. Named after a ancient Greek physician who is credited with writing it.
Euthinasia - answer-Literally means "good dying"; an easy death as an escape from some
condition, usually terminal, and felt by the patient to be intolerable.
Assisted suicide - answer-the suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, effected
by the taking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose.
Joanne Lynn - answer-A physician that has cared for 1,000 hospice patients who believes that
most terminal patience who request physician-assisted death are actually seeking attention,
control, dignity, relief of symptoms, or relief from depression.
Mercitron - answer-A simple device that consisted of three IV bags hund from an aluminum
frame. The content of each IV bag was a saline solution, thiopental, and potassium chloride.
Groningen Protocol - answer-Allows the euthanization of children with disabilities by parental
consent. Extended legislation of dutch parliament in 2002
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