Chapter 17: Death, Dying and Grieving Flashcards
What did Kastenbaum argue about the death system?
It serves a variety of important cultural functions, like warnings/predictions, death prevention, caring for dying, disposal of dead, social consolidation, making sense of death and killing.
What percentage of Canadians die in hospitals?
Nursing homes?
Hospices/home deaths?
60%, 10%, 30%
What is brain death? What are the ethics involved in this?
Neurological definition based on a lack of neural electrical activity. Technology can sustain life even after cortical brain death (with activity in the brain stem still).
What is advance care planning?
Considering and communicating their wishes for burial, organ donation, wills, resuscitation, funeral organization as they prepare for death.
What is euthanasia?
Painlessly ending the life of someone suffering from incurable disease/severe disability
Is active or passive euthanasia legal in canada?
Passive
What is a hospice?
Program committed to making end of life relatively comfortable
What is Pallative care?
Reducing pain and suffering in patients. Emphasized in hospices.
What are the causes of death throughout the lifespan? (Prenatal, few days after birth, few months after birth, childhood, adolescents, young adults, older adults)
Misscarriage/stillborn Birth defect/immature development SIDS Accident/illness Accident/suicide/homicide Accident Heart disease/cancer
Young children often confuse death with ____.
Sleep
Children 6-9 years believe that death can be ____.
reversed
After what age do children understand that death is final?
9 years
What are Kubler-Ross’ 5 stages of dying? Are these stages chronical?
Denial/isolation Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance
People often jump back and forth between phases.
6 months after the loss of a loved one, __-__% of individuals have difficulty moving on.
10-20%
What is disenfranchised grief?
Grief over a deceased individual that can’t be openly mourned
