Chapter 16

Question 1

Thanatology

Answer 1

The study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and social attitudes toward these issues

Question 2

Clinical Death

Answer 2

Lack of a heart beat and respiration

Question 3

Whole-Brain Death

Answer 3

Declared only when when the deceased meets eight criteria established in 1981

Question 4

Persistent Vegetative State

Answer 4

Situation in which a person’s cortical functioning ceases while brain stem activity continues

Question 5

Bioethics

Answer 5

Study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences

Question 6

Euthanasia

Answer 6

The practice of ending a life for reason of mercy

Question 7

Active Euthanasia

Answer 7

The deliberate ending of someone’s life

Question 8

Passive Euthanasia

Answer 8

Allowing someone to die by withholding treatment

Question 9

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Answer 9

Process in which physicians provide dying patients with a fatal dose of medication that the patient self-administers

Question 10

Do Not Resuscitate Order

Answer 10

(DNR) A medical order that means that cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is not started should one’s heart and breathing stop

Question 11

Living Will

Answer 11

A document in which a person states their wishes about life support and other treatments

Question 12

Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care

Answer 12

A document in which an individual appoints someone to act as their agent for health care decisions

Question 13

Death Anxiety

Answer 13

People’s anxiety or even fear of death and dying

Question 14

Terror Management Theory

Answer 14

Addresses the issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality

Question 15

End-of -Life Issues

Answer 15

Issues pertaining to the management of the final phase of life, after death dispositions of the body and memorial services, and distribution of assets

Question 16

Final Scenario

Answer 16

Making one’s choices known about how they do and do not want their lives to end

Question 17

Hospice

Answer 17

An approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management, or palliative, and death with dignity

Question 18

Palliative Care

Answer 18

Care that is focused on providing relief from pain from pain and other symptoms of disease at any point during the disease process

Question 19

Bereavement

Answer 19

The state or condition caused by loss through death

Question 20

Grief

Answer 20

The sorrow, hurt, guilt, anger, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss

Question 21

Mourning

Answer 21

The ways in which we express our grief

Question 22

Anticipatory Grief

Answer 22

Grief that is experienced during the period before an expected death occurs that supposedly serves to buffer the impact of the loss when it does come and to facilitate recovery

Question 23

Grief Work

Answer 23

The psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement

Question 24

Anniversary Reaction

Answer 24

Changes in behavior related to feelings of sadness on the anniversary date of loss

Question 25

Four-Component Model

Answer 25

Model for understanding grief that is based on 1) the context of the loss; 2) continuation of subjective meaning associated with loss; 3) changing representations of the lost relationship over time; 4) the role of coping and emotion-regulation processes

Question 26

Grief Work as Rumination Hypothesis

Answer 26

An Approach that not only rejects the necessity of grief processing for recovery from loss, but views extensive grief processing as a form of rumination that may actually increase distress

Question 27

Duel Process Model

Answer 27

View of coping with bereavement that integrates loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented stressors

Question 28

Complicated or Prolonged Grief Disorder

Answer 28

Expression of grief which is distinguished from depression and from normal grief in terms of separation distress and traumatic distress

Question 29

Separation Distress

Answer 29

Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes preoccupation with the deceased to the point that it interferes with everyday , upsetting memories of deceased, longing and searching for the deceased and isolation

Question 30

Traumatic Distress

Answer 30

Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes disbelief about the death; mistrust, anger, and detachment from others as a result of the death; feeling shocked by the death; and the experience of physical presence of the deceased