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1

The durable power of attorney is not specifically a medical document, but it may serve that purpose.
A)True
B)False
2

Physician-assisted suicide is illegal in all developed countries and in all 50 states in the United States.
A)True
B)False
3

Bereaved persons and dying persons may progress through the stages of grief in much the same way.
A)True
B)False
4

A grieving person always follows the stages of grief, as defined by Dr. Kubler-Ross, in order.
A)True
B)False
5

Advance directives are helpful in fulfilling a dying person's wishes.
A)True
B)False
6

What established uniform guidelines for determining when death has occurred?
A)the Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
B)the durable power of attorney
C)the Uniform Determination of Death Act
D)thanatology
7

Which of the following is an indication of brain death?
A)Circulatory functions have slowed.
B)Respiratory functions continue.
C)The entire brain, including the brain stem, has irreversibly ceased to function.
D)None of the choices.
8

Which of the following is NOT a medical sign that death has occurred?
A)The patient cannot breathe without assistance.
B)The patient has no coughing or gagging reflex.
C)The patient has no pupil response to light.
D)The patient has a slowed blinking reflex when the cornea is touched.
9

At the cellular level, technically death results from
A)acidosis.
B)clotting of blood cells.
C)lack of oxygen.
D)lack of carbon dioxide.
10

The study of death and dying is called
A)mortuary science.
B)thanatology.
C)funereal science.
D)euthanasia.





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