Ch. 1 and 2 Flashcards
Suffering
An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with being alive. To suffer means to “endure death, pain, or distress, to sustain loss or damage, to be subject to disability or handicap”
acute pain
sharp, severe pain that has sudden onsets and lasts only a short time
chronic pain
long-term; suffering that may never be relieved
physical pain
acute or chronic
psychological pain
mental or emotional
spiritual pain
dark night of the soul, times of uncertainty and doubt
first evil
exists because humans are subject to birth and death in a limited imperfect world (sickness, aging, mortality, tangled emotional involvements, separated from loved ones, childbirth, hunger pangs, environmental evils, etc)
second evil
evils that people inflict on each other (man’s inhumanity to man); suffering can be personal or impersonal (wrong place, wrong time)
third evil
caused by evils we bring upon ourselves by our own thoughts or actions
paradise
a perfect world; a heaven on earth in which people walk and talk with god
nirvana
a blissful state of perfect happiness, in which there is no sufferingor death
utopia
a perfect, or ideal, society
passion
Latin meaning “ to suffer”; to be passionate means to experience intense, driving, overwhelming emotion and feeling. It also means having a strong liking toward, desire for, or ardent desire to something or someone
compassion
to suffer with others; to be moved by the suffering of others in such a way that we try to alleviate that suffering
faith
a theological virtue that enables us to believe that God exists and loves for us. it also enables us to have a personal relationship with God and to live by the gospel values despite situations of suffering and pain
resiliance
the ability to handle whatever life gives us. Thriving despite the problems they are having
heaven
a state of being, a mode of existence, in which one is in complete and total union with God
purgatory
a state of being, a mode of existence, in which one prepares (cleansing, purifying, purging) for complete and total union with God
hell
a state of being, a mode of existence, in which one is completely and totally separated from God
death
the permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions: (1) total brain function, (2) spontaneous function of the respiratory system, and (3) spontaneous function of the circulatory system
coroner
public official given the responsibility of determining the cause of death in cases where death is not from a natural or apparent reason. The coroner is also responsible for the disposition of unclaimed bodies.
cooling (algor mortis)
The temperature of the body drops. The amount of cooling depends on the environmental temp., clothing type, and the amount of body fat.
rigidity (rigor mortis)
five to ten hours after death, the muscles usually stiffen. Jaw muscles often stiffen first. The muscles again relax after three or four days.
blood clotting
the blood clots shortly after death; sometimes clotting occurs before the heart stops
