1. If you were Ana Pou and believed no rescue was coming for your nine patients,

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1. If you were Ana Pou and believed no rescue was coming for your nine patients, would you have done the same as she did?

2. Almost all the patients who died in Oregon and Washington were white and educated. Why do you think other kinds of people didn’t use the law?

3. If physicians were on salary rather than being paid per procedures, would more terminal patients be killed more quickly?

4. Do views about physician-assisted killing depend on whether you think humans are basically selfish and sinful or good and compassionate?

Explanation / Answer

1. In my humble opinion, the answer would be indeed, During disasters such as these one can only speculate the state of physical and metal pain that a certain critical patient would have been experiencing and suffering from as a result. Ethically, it has not been considered as the greatest act; but, Morally, it was the right and humane thing to do. Th hurricane Katrina was a devastating disaster.

2. There is a possibility of facing inequality within the legal system that led to the inutilization of law by others.

3. By being paid per procedure, there is an onus unto the acting physician to take the utmost care, and be carefull with every step, but with the being paid a standard salary could direct towards potential slacking, which would lead to precarious care having being provided to certain patients.

4. This isn't a black and white answer, to this question and its answer there exist nuances within decision, the intention and the motive with which the act is carried out is what categorizes the act, the act cannot be genralized on the entirety of 'humans' but on the individual person.

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