Chapter Two Flashcards
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Terror Management Theory
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Theory that humans adopt strategies to avoid existential terror associated with physical death.
2
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Existential Distress
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Distress caused by realization that death is inevitable.
3
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Approaching Death
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- The dying world SPLITS off from the outside world, therefore bringing forward the need for bridging worlds.
4
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Visible Process of Dying
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- Recognizing Dying
- Peripheral Shutdown
- Imminent Death
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Death Rattle
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Body cannot clear secretions from airways.
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Invisible Process of Dying
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- Individual appears to be in control of the timing of death.
- Those who are dying appear to be in two worlds simultaneously.
7
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Death Doula
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- A person who sits with those who are dying.
8
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Terminal Lucidity
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- Individual experiences cognitive clarity despite the neurological compromised state of their brain.
- Death usually occurs within hours of terminal lucidity.
9
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Shadow
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- A part of our psyche that we do not wish to be.
10
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Shared Death Experiences
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An experience in which a person who is present with a person who is dying appears to share the dying person’s experience of dying.
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Deathbed Coincidences
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Events that coincide with a person’s death for which there does not appear to be readily available causal explanations.
