Dying and Bereavement Flashcards
A feeling of anxiety or even the fear of death and dying.
Death Anxiety
The study of death, dying, grief, bereavement and social attitudes towards the stated issues.
Thanatology
A death characterized by a lack of heartbeat and respiration.
Clinical Death
A death declared only when the deceased meets eight criteria.
Whole-brain Death
When was the eight criteria to determine Whole-brain Death made?
1981
A situation or state wherein a person’s cortical functioning ceases while brainstem activity continues.
Persistent Vegetative State
A study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences.
Bioethics
The praactice of ending life for reasons of mercy.
Euthanasia
A type of euthanasia wherein it’s a deliberate ending of someone’s life, and may be based on a clear statement of the person’s wishes, or a decision made by someone with the legal authority to do so.
Active Euthanasia
A type of euthanasia wherein you are allowing a person to die by withholding available treatment.
Passive Euthanasia
Procedure in which a physician provides a dying person with a fatal dose of medication that the individual themself administers.
Physician-assisted Suicide
A state or condition caused by loss through death.
Bereavement
Sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss.
Grief
The ways in which people express their grief.
Mourning
A theory that addresses te issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality.
Terror Management Theory
At what age do children realize that death is permanent?
5-7 years old