TEOPIZ, MARK JOVAN JR.

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1. D - Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families
facing the problem. Associated with life- threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of
suffering.
2. B - Hospice programs concept has been very effective in dealing with the terminally ill. There
specialize units designed to reduce suffering and provide humane care for the dying.
3. B - St. Christopher’s is the best known hospice in Great Britain which is founded by Dr. Cicely
Saunders in 1967. In this hospice great effort is devoted to keeping patient clean, caring for the skin,
preventing bed sores, controlling nausea and vomiting, and treating neuropsychiatric symptoms. Their
rooms are cheerful, flowers are abundant and the patient receive personalized care designed to virtually
eliminate pain and suffering.
4. D - Joseph Fletcher is known for his theory of situation ethics, He is an ethicist and ordained
Episcopal priest but later identified himself as an

atheist. Regarding euthanasia, he quoted “It is harder morally to justify letting someone die a slow and
ugly death, dehumanized, than it is to justify helping him to escape from such misery.” This is a case at
least in any code of ethics which is humanistic or personalistic, i.e., in any code of ethics which has a
value system that puts humanness and personal integrity above biological life and function.
5. A - Mercy killing is a painless death, or intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from
an incurable or painful disease at his or her request. Also known as euthanasia.