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joesmith1212

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The main difference between typical patients who apply for physician-assisted dying and healthy individuals of the same age who commit suicide is that the patients who apply for physician-assisted dying
 
  A) are more likely to be depressed.
  B) are more likely to be lonely.
  C) are emotionally unable to commit suicide on their own.
  D) would prefer to live if they could be medically treated.

Question 2

Physician-assisted dying differs from active euthanasia in that
 
  A) it does not involve medication.
  B) it is legal almost everywhere, except in the United States.
  C) it usually involves the patient pulling the plug of life-support equipment.
  D) the action that causes the death is self-administered.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

D



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