Younger adults who are dying often feel

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more than do older adults who are dying.

A. active euthanasia: Jack Kevorkian is associated with actively hastening death (providing lethal means or administering lethal injection) to end patients’ lives, which is characterized as active euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide.
B. life wills: Life wills (living wills) are advance directives stating treatment preferences; Kevorkian’s activities involved direct assistance in dying, not drafting or promoting living wills.
C. passive euthanasia: Passive euthanasia involves withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment; Kevorkian’s interventions were active rather than passive.
D. advance directives: Advance directives are legal documents expressing future care wishes; they are different from the direct, active assistance in dying for which Kevorkian is known.

A. Letter size becomes bigger and more even with age: Actually, handwriting tends to become smaller, neater, and more uniform with age due to improved fine motor control, so this statement is incorrect.
B. Boys usually outperform girls in fine motor skills: The typical finding is the opposite; girls generally outperform boys on many fine-motor tasks in middle/late childhood.
C. Increased myelination affects the development of gross motor skills but not fine motor skills: Myelination improves speed and coordination for both gross and fine motor skills; it’s not limited to gross motor development.
D. Girls usually outperform boys in fine motor skills: Girls typically show earlier and/or better performance on fine motor tasks (handwriting, manual dexterity) during middle and late childhood.