MODULE 11 :: DISCUSSION BOARD

Please answer the following questions as a discussion board post. You do not need to reply to your peers.

1. 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).
2. 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?
3. Discuss the various interpretations and nuances of end-of –life preferences in the book that take into account religion, consent and medical conditions