13.1 Batch

Question 1

What legal and medical criteria are used to determine when death occurs & define?

Answer 1

Previously: Clinical death - Lack of heartbeat and respiration
Currently: Whole-brain death - Occurrence when the deceased meets 8 criteria established in 1981

Question 2

What do death education programs do?
What are 3 things they focus on?

Answer 2

They combine factual information about death with issues aimed at reducing anxiety/fear
Death, the process of dying, grief and bereavement

Question 3

What’s Kubler-Ross’s theory / model of death & dying? (5, 2)

Answer 3

5 reactions / stages:
1-Denial
2-Anger
3-Bargaining
4-Depression
5-Acceptance
People can be in more than one stage at a time, don’t need to go through them in order

Question 4

End of life issues

Answer 4

Issues pertaining to the management of the final phase of life, like distribution of assets

Question 5

Ambiguous loss

Answer 5

Any situation of death in which there’s no resolution or closure