[Brianna Ledger]

Discuss the New York Times Magazine’s ethics columnists statement, “Why weren’t there plans to cope with these patients when you knew a storm was coming? Sometimes the ethical—the most important ethical question sometimes is the one you ask not at the moment of crisis, but the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avoid them” (375).

“, But the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avid them” that it is better to prepare for the worst. It’s better to have it and not need it than not have it and need it.

Describe John Thiele’s perspective of the storm and their circumstances at Memorial. How was he able to ultimately feel it was right to smother a man?

He was able to feel because of their aliments that it was a act of mercy not for them to suffer. In way it wasn’t prolonging the death those less likely to make it during such a distressful time.

Discuss the various interpretations and nuances of end-of –life preferences in the book that take into account religion, consent and medical conditions

In regards to religion, consent and medical conditions are different, especially in regards to end of life, some believe that Catholics are the most strict in some sense in regards to end of life.

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