social oorganisation of death and dying Flashcards
describe social and biiological death
social- the mourning and geiving of a person that facilitates their social death
can be very culture specific, rites, customs.
biological - death.
high income societies the intimate link between the biological and social death has become more tenuous.
what has happened to death
become more prolonged, used to be sudden- infection trauma etc.
longer life enjooyed, meanings and practices lost lots of their power. death becomes prolonged deterioration assoc with chronic diseases. social withdrawal often before death.
medicalisation of death
natural death has come to an end, the doctor now struggles with death but not the patient.
5 key features of the good death
awareness of dying: a personal and soaial process about talking about the prognosis of illness, espechially if high likelyhood at death
personal preperations and soaicl adjustments- settle emotional accounts
public preperations- wills etc.
relihquishing of formal wok roles
formal and informal farewells.
