Death Defined
A person who dies from a terminal illness is said to have experienced a surprise or expected death?
What is an expected death?
This is the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of racial, religious, or social group
What is culture?
This chronic disease is the leading cause of death in the US
What is heart disease?
What is the incarcerated population?
This is defined as self-determination - the patient has the right to choose or refuse
What is autonomy?
The definition of this is “to reduce the violence of (a disease); to ease (symptoms) without curing the underlying disease” (Merriam-Webster, 2014).
What is to palliate
This is a deeply personal experience. For some people, it means being a part of an established religion, attending services and following specific practices and beliefs. For others, it is more of a personal belief system or philosophy of life on earth and after death.
What is spirituality?
This type of death has the perspective that someone died the way they wanted, with symptoms controlled, utilizing the interdisciplinary team, and with caregivers attended to after death.
What is a "good" death?
The outcome of completing are that a person’s preferences and wishes are documented and a decision-maker is identified.
What are advanced directives?
To act in the best interest of patients
What is beneficence?
This term originated from medieval times when it was considered to be a place where fatigued travelers could rest.
What is hospice?
___________are the outcomes that patients place the highest value on and would hope to achieve in regard to their illness.
What are goals of care?
What is the largest barrier in goals of care and advance care planning conversations?
What is initiating/starting the conversation?
Nearly 25% of this population report to having to
teach their health care provider about issues within their population in order to receive appropriate care
What is the transgender population?
To do no harm to a patient
What is non-maleficence?
_________ is ideally instituted alongside curative care when a person is diagnosed with a serious illness, _________ is reserved for persons for whom curative medical treatments are no longer an option.
What is palliative care and hospice care?
This is the distinct difference between medical aid in dying and euthanasia.
What is the patient self-ingesting medication?
A clinician needs to determine this when talking to a patient about who else should be involved in serious illness conversations.
What is who is considered family?
This type of burial was depicted in the last chapter of Daughty (2018) where a body is placed in a tall tower for vultures.
What is a sky burial?
This is a group of experts trained in healthcare (physicians and nurses), philosophy and ethics, and
theology
What is an ethics committee?
This trajectory of illness is characterized by a slow decline towards death with low functional ability through the majority of their illness.
What is fraility?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid established this in 1983.
What is the Hospice Medicare Benefit?
A complex emotion that allows caregivers to hold and sustain themselves in emotional balance while holding patients’ despair in one hand and their
hopefulness in the other.
What is compassion?
Activities of this include directed discussions about death and living before death, with typically no agenda (organic conversation) and tea or coffee and cake.
What is a death cafe
In this principle, the action must be either morally good or indifferent, the bad effect must not be the means by which one achieves the good effect, the intention must be the achieving of only the good
effect, with the bad effect being only an unintended side effect, and the good effect must be at least equivalent in importance to the bad effect. An example is the administration of morphine for some patients.
What is double-effect?