Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Pearlman and Starks argue that health care providers can best serve patients by focusing on the single factor motivating them to seek physician-assisted death.
2. Because of the wish to control the timing and circumstance of one’s death, some dying patients will continue to desire assisted death even if they are receiving excellent palliative end-of-life care.
3. Kass argues that defining categories of “euthanizable” people is a fairly easy and straightforward task.
4. Kass argues that from the health care provider’s perspective, the duty to make whole and to heal can never be compatible with intentionally killing the patient.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True

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