ASU Chapter 20: Death, Dying and Grieving

Question 1

THE DEATH SYSTEM AND ITS CULTURAL VARIATIONS:
To live a full life and die with glory is the goal according to which ancient civilization?

Answer 1

Ancient Greeks

Question 2

CHANGING HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES:
Life expectancy has increased from 47 years for someone born in 1900, to __ years for someone born today.

Answer 2

78

Question 3

THE DEATH SYSTEM AND ITS CULTURAL VARIATIONS:
What are the 5 Components comprising the death system?

Answer 3

• People
• Places or Contexts
• Times
• Objects
• Symbols

Question 4

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…?

Answer 4

Brain Death

Question 5

DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
The process of patients thinking about and communicating their preferences about end-of-life care.

Answer 5

Advanced Care Planning

Question 6

DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A legal document that reflects the patient’s advance care planning.

Answer 6

Living Will

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Advance Directive

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Euthanasia

Question 9

DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A type of euthanasia where treatment is withheld.

Answer 9

Passive Euthanasia

Question 10

DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A type of euthanasia where death is deliberately induced.

Answer 10

Active Euthanasia

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Hospice

Question 12

DECISIONS REGARDING LIFE, DEATH, AND HEALTH CARE:
A typ of care that reduces pain and suffering, helping individuals die with dignity.

Answer 12

Palliative Care

Question 13

CAUSES OF DEATH:
What is te leading cause of infant death (in the US)?

Answer 13

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Question 14

CAUSES OF DEATH:
What does SIDS stand for?

Answer 14

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Question 15

ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH:
What is the best strategy in discussing death with children?

Answer 15

Honesty

Question 16

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?

Answer 16

3-5 years old | 9 years old

Question 17

ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH:
Adolescents develop more _______ conceptions about death than children.

Answer 17

Abstract

Question 18

FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person denies that they’re really going to die.

Answer 18

Denial & Isolation

Question 19

FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person’s denial begins to give way to resentment, rage and envy.

Answer 19

Anger

Question 20

FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person develops the hope that death can somehow be postponed.

Answer 20

Bargaining

Question 21

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.

Answer 21

Depression

Question 22

FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
A stage of dying wherein the dying person finally comes to a sense of peace with their death.

Answer 22

Acceptance

Question 23

FACING ONE’S OWN DEATH:
The proponent of the Stages of Dying.

Answer 23

Kübler-Ross

Question 24

An adaptive strategy for remaining alert and cheerful.

Answer 24

Perceived Control

Question 25

An emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness and loneliness that accompanies the loss of a loved one.

Answer 25

Grief

Question 26

GRIEVING:
A disorder characterized by grief that involves enduring despair and remains unresolved over an extended period of time.

Answer 26

Prolonged Grief Disorder

Question 27

GRIEVING:
An individual’s grief involving a deceased person that is a socially ambiguous loss that can’t be openly mourned or supported.

Answer 27

Disenfranchised Grief

Question 28

GRIEVING:
A model of coping with bereavement that emphasizes oscillation between Loss-oriented Stressors and Restoration-oriented Stressors.

Answer 28

Dual-process Model

Question 29

LOSING A LIFE PARTNER:
A demographic considered to probably be the poorest group (in America).

Answer 29

Widowed Women