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1
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How many official ways are there to die?

A

113

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Whhat kind of psychological experience is death?

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Neither single, nor uniform

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What is the leading cause of death in 1-14?

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Accidental injury

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What is the leading cause of death in 15-24?

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Injury, homicide, suicide, cancer, heart disease

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What happens based on different causes of death? (5)

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Psychological experiences, death anxiety, preventative behavior, coping and grieving

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What are the 5 types of death?

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Degenerative death, epidemic death, sudden death, horrific death, premature death

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Degenerative - What groups are most susceptible to this type?

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After 45, this accounts for 7 out of the top 10 causes

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Degenerative - examples

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Diabetes, cancer, heart disease

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Degenerative - what causes it?

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Lifestyle related, self-caused

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Degenerative - treatment?

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Yes, it is treatable to slow down death. This may cause death defiance and death denial

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Degenerative death and out-group bias (5)

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Negative view, blame the victim, avoidance (contamination), false sense of security, “sick person role”

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Degenerative and existential dilemas (5)

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Self-blame, delays treatment, anger and rejection, self esteem challenges, problem of hope and acceptance

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Epidemic - what is this?

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Comunicable disease such as influenza, dysentary, SARS

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Which kind of death causes most deaths worldwide?

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Epidemic deaths

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Epidemic - which group is especially vulnerable?

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Elderly, disabled, and children

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What happens after an epidemic?

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Panic, anxious, search for victims, isolation of contaminated victims, great suffering and little treatment

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Examples of sudden or unexpected death

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Heart attack, stroke or other natural form of death

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Sudden - how much of death is caused by this

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1st or 2nd cause of death from 44 and on

19
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Epidemic - what kind of death trajectory?

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very rapid (like death by diarea)

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Sudden - what kind of death trajectory?

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quick death trajectory

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Sudden - causes

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may be life-style related, but natural

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Sudden - treatment

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Often treatable if caught in time, likely to include ICU treatment. Problem for saying goodbye

23
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Examples of horrific deaths

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unexpected, body often disfigured, homicide, suicide, war

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What group is most effected by horrific death?

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Most common for ages 1-45. Top 3 causes from ages 18-34, 82% of all deaths

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What comes with horrific death?

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Shock, disbelief, revulsion common, problem with body and goodbyes,

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Horrific - what happens with grief?

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May be delayed by ongoing conflict, political disputes, death seems unfair, need for justice, grief is more prolonged

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Horrific - blaming the victim

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the victims’s behavior may be questioned, blame on drugs or alcohol, external agent blamed

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Defining premature deaths

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deaths of the young, those who havent had a “full life”, always tragic and horrific

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Premature - Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL)

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The calculation of the years that the victims lost, and potentially life adventures not had

30
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Premature - life expectancy

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78

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Premature - higher YPLL

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More tragic death

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Premature - YPLL uses

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insurance, lawsuits as a “value” of a lost life, can guide social policies

33
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Premature - grief

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Much more difficult to deal with, anger at doctors, society and god. It may be channeled into prevention

34
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What does suicide mean?

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Self murder, an ancient and universal behavior

35
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What is the best predictor for suicide?

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Men are 4x higher across all ages, goes up in midlife, and skyrockets in the late 60s

36
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Possible explanations for male suicide rates? (5)

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Physiology (testosterone), aggression, masculine identity, autonomy, self-determination

37
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Gender differences in methods of suicide

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Males use firearms the most (62%), females use firearms (38%), poisons (27%)

38
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Cultural variations - suicide and murder

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Inverse relationship

39
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Cultural variations - rural and urban and suicide

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Rural life predicts higher rates

40
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Ethnic differences in suicide rate

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Black, Asian, and Hispanic all have low suicide rates. Whites have high rates, perticularlu among midlife. Native Americans have very high rates in early adulthood, then drops

41
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What are the 3 types of NDE?

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Cognitive (life review), Affective (peace), transcendental (point of no return)

42
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Psychological explanations for NDE

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Depersonalization, dissociation, motivated fantasy

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