How would you apply the core values of community, respect, and integrity into actions. Be sure to use proper APA format and citations.

1- What are the potential foreseeable financial, psychological, and medical, yet unintended, harmful consequences to one’s family and friends in failing to provide a properly executed will and living will prior to one’s final illness and death?

2- What are the fundamental distinctions between recuperative medical care and palliative care? Who should be included in the decision to modify care from recuperative to palliative? When, if ever, is the right to refuse any and all medical care appropriate when such virtually ensures the death of the patient?

3- What professionals, medical or otherwise, should be involved in advising decisions concerning end-oflife wishes? How does euthanasia differ from a simple cessation of treatment? Who should make end-oflife decisions for those who are without a family member to take on such a role?

4- What measures can be taken to ensure the quality of ongoing family and social relationships, individually and as a group, to end-of-life patients? What pitfalls are to be avoided in ensuring maintenance of these relationships? What actions may be taken to ensure the spiritual and existential dimensions of the process are respected and integrated?