Chapter 17: Death, Dying, and Greiving

Question 1

brain death

Answer 1

a neurological definition of death. A person is brain dead when all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time. A flat EEG recording is one criterion of brain death

Question 2

advance directive

Answer 2

states such preferences as whether life-sustaining procedures should or should not be used to prolong the life of an individual when death is imminent

Question 3

euthanasia

Answer 3

the act of painlessly ending the lives of persons who are suffering from incurable diseases or severe disabilities; sometimes called “mercy killing”

Question 4

passive euthanasia

Answer 4

the withholding of available treatments, such as life-sustaining devices, allowing the person to die

Question 5

active euthanasia

Answer 5

death induced deliberately, as by injecting a lethal dose of a drug

Question 6

hospice

Answer 6

a program committed to making the end of life as free from pain, anxiety, and depression as possible. The goals of hospice care contrast with those of a hospital, which are to cure disease and to prolong life

Question 7

palliative care

Answer 7

emphasized in hospice care; involves reducing pain and suffering and helping individuals die with dignity

Question 8

Kubler-Ross stages of dying

Answer 8

1. denial and isolation
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression
5. acceptance

Question 9

grief

Answer 9

the emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love

Question 10

complicated grief or prolonged grief disorder

Answer 10

grief that involves enduring despair and is still unresolved over an extended period of time