ASU Chapter 20: Death, Dying and Grieving Flashcards
THE DEATH SYSTEM AND ITS CULTURAL VARIATIONS:
To live a full life and die with glory is the goal according to which ancient civilization?
Ancient Greeks
CHANGING HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES:
Life expectancy has increased from 47 years for someone born in 1900, to __ years for someone born today.
78
THE DEATH SYSTEM AND ITS CULTURAL VARIATIONS:
What are the 5 Components comprising the death system?
- People
- Places or Contexts
- Times
- Objects
- Symbols
ISSUES IN DETERMINING DEATH:
When all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time, the person is deemed to have undergone…?
Brain Death
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
The process of patients thinking about and communicating their preferences about end-of-life care.
Advanced Care Planning
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A legal document that reflects the patient’s advance care planning.
Living Will
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A directive that states whether life-sustaining procedures should or should not be used to prolong the life of an individual when death is imminent.
Advance Directive
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
The act of painlessly ending the lives of individuals who are suffering from an incurable disease or severe disability.
Euthanasia
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A type of euthanasia where treatment is withheld.
Passive Euthanasia
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A type of euthanasia where death is deliberately induced.
Active Euthanasia
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A program committed to making the end of life as free from pain, anxiety and depression as possible.
Hospice
DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A typ of care that reduces pain and suffering, helping individuals die with dignity.
Palliative Care
CAUSES OF DEATH:
What is te leading cause of infant death (in the US)?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
CAUSES OF DEATH:
What does SIDS stand for?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH:
What is the best strategy in discussing death with children?
Honesty
ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH:
Around what age do children believe the dead can be brought back to life, and at what age do they begin to view death as irreversible?
3-5 years old | 9 years old
ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH:
Adolescents develop more _______ conceptions about death than children.
Abstract
FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person denies that they’re really going to die.
Denial & Isolation
FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person’s denial begins to give way to resentment, rage and envy.
Anger
FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person develops the hope that death can somehow be postponed.
Bargaining
FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person comes to accept the certainty of death after a period of withdrawal, crying, and grieving.
Depression
FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person finally comes to a sense of peace with their death.
Acceptance
FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
The proponent of the Stages of Dying.
Kübler-Ross
An adaptive strategy for remaining alert and cheerful.
Perceived Control
An emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness and loneliness that accompanies the loss of a loved one.
Grief
GRIEVING:
A disorder characterized by grief that involves enduring despair and remains unresolved over an extended period of time.
Prolonged Grief Disorder
GRIEVING:
An individual’s grief involving a deceased person that is a socially ambiguous loss that can’t be openly mourned or supported.
Disenfranchised Grief
GRIEVING:
A model of coping with bereavement that emphasizes oscillation between Loss-oriented Stressors and Restoration-oriented Stressors.
Dual-process Model
LOSING A LIFE PARTNER:
A demographic considered to probably be the poorest group (in America).
Widowed Women
