Palliative Care Nursing

at a Glance

Christine Ingleton, Philip Larkin

Multiple Choice: Chapter 52 Responses to Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

Question 1. In the United Kingdom, euthanasia is legal if:

A It involves someone taking their own life without the assistance of others
B It involves someone taking their own life where another person only gives them the means to do so but does not physically assist them
C It involves helping someone to take their own life when they have made a conscious and competent decision that they no longer want to live
D It takes place in an officially designated clinic with designated physicians or clinicians who are trained in counselling and safe administration of lethal medications