Death and Dying Flashcards
1
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Kubler-Ross Stages of Grief
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- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
2
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Defining Death
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Clinical Death
Brain Death
3
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Clinical Death
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- Heart, breathing, brain stopped, but still can resuscitate
4
Q
Brain death
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- all activity in brain and brain stem stopped
- irreversible
5
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Persistent Vegetative State
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- Activity in cerebral cortex stopped, brain stem still active
6
Q
Development of Death Concept
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- Permanence
- Inevitability
- Cessation
- Applicability
- Causation
7
Q
Permanence
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- Once a living thing dies, it cannot be brought back to life
8
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Inevitability
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- all living things eventually die
9
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Cessation
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- All living functions, including thought, feeling, movement, and bodily processes, cease at death
10
Q
Applicability
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- Death applies only to living things
11
Q
Causation
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- Death is caused by a breakdown of bodily functioning
12
Q
Grief Process
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Avoidance
Confrontation
Restoration
13
Q
Avoidance
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- “emotional anesthesia”
- shock, disbelief, numbed
- building awareness
14
Q
Confrontation
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- most intense grief
- thousands of surges of anguish
- relationship transformed from physical presence to inner representation
15
Q
Restoration
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- dual-process model of coping with loss
- alternate between dealing with emotions and with life changes
