Test #1 Flashcards
Acculturation
individual or group borrowing and adapting traits from another culture
Active Euthanasia
Assisted suicide
Adaptive Funeral
A funeral rite that is specific to the needs and requests of the family
Administrator
A court appointed person that settles a estate if there is no will
Anticipatory grief -
Impending death that will occur as a result of a chronic illness
At-need-
Arrangement conference with the funeral director and the family
Awareness context-
Created by Glaser and Strauss
4 specific ways that dying patients communicate and interact with their family in the medical staff.
Bereavement
The state or event connected to a loss
Chronic disease
A disease from which the symptoms can usually be alleviated, but from which the individual rarely recovers.
*Cancer, and heart disease are examples of chronic illnesses.
Clinical bereavement
The state of desperation and loss due to death of one in whom emotionally energy has been invested
Codicil
An amendment or addition to a will
Communication
Exchange of information asked and thoughts between two or more people, that includes verbal and nonverbal actions.
Cryonics
Also termed BODY SUSPENSION, the freezing of human remains in liquid nitrogen, which allows an individual to wait for a cure to a terminal illness.
Dirge
A memorial or mourning song
Disenfranchised, grief
The grief, that person’s experience when the incur a loss that is not or cannot be OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGED, PUBLICLY MOURNED, or SOCIALLY SUPPORTED
