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silviawilliams41

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Living wills
 
  a) only apply to patients with terminal illnesses.
  b) only apply to patients who are permanently unconscious.
  c) only apply to patients with terminal illnesses, or who are unconscious.
  d) only apply to patients who have identified proxy decision-makers.

Question 2

Death is defined as the point when an individual ceases to be a person under which of the following notions of death?
 
  a) whole-brain
  b) traditional
  c) higher-brain
  d) personhood



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Answer to Question 1

c) only apply to patients with terminal illness, or who are unconscious.

Answer to Question 2

d) personhood



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