death and dying Flashcards
death in contemporary societies happens later in life due to
- better living conditions
- high level of medical technology
- early detection of disease
- death from chronic diseases
5 stages of dying
- denial
- anger
- bargaining
- depression
- acceptance
denial
when people learn they are dying they experience shock, and tend to say “no, it can’t be me”
anger
over time denial is substituted by feelings of anger, rage, envy and resentment
often asking “why me?”
bargaining
dying people negotiate – openly with health professionals and secretly with god to postpone death in promise of good behavior
depression
patients develop a great sense of loss which leads to depression
ex: a woman with uterus cancer feels that she’s no longer a woman
acceptance
when people find peace, pain is gone, family needs more support than patient
where might death occur?
- home
- hospital
- hospice
why would some people choose to die at home?
- tradition
- people find comfort dying in their own home around their family
bereavement
the experience of losing a loved one
stages of mourning
- a short period of shock — from death to funeral
- a period of intense mourning — withdrawal from social activities & physiological changes
- a period of being re-established socially and physiologically
role of funerals
- contexts of expressing intense feelings
- they offer to the living a framework of understanding and control death
- they can be linked with a place of burial (to communicate)
biological death is when life ends, social death is _____
occurs when a person is no longer capable of mastering their own life and relies on others to act on their behalf
what might cause a person to undergo social death
- brain death or injury
- coma
what is meant by “medicalization of life”
more and more aspects of daily life have been brought into the biomedical sphere of influence
