Historical Changes Regarding Death
This is the one emotion that remains constant across cultures and ages in regards to death?
What is hope?
Children who are terminal often fear this at the time of their death.
What is the fear of abandonment?
At the end of life, peaceful, quick, in familiar surroundings, with family and friends present and without pain or discomfort are the key components of this concept that human strive for.
What is a good death?
This is the location where the first modern hospice was opened.
What is London?
This is the deep sorrow that people feel after the death of another person or after the loss of something meaningful to them.
What is grief?
100 years ago this was around 40 years old. Today, it is around 78 years old.
What is the average life span?
This is the work that older adults often engage in at the end of their life that involves leaving something meaningful for later generations.
What is legacy work?
This includes denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
What are the stages of dying by Kubler-Ross?
This is the time frame in which death is anticipated in order to qualify for hospice care.
What is six months?
This is a type of grief in which mourners do not grieve because either themselves or others do not allow them to grieve.
What is absent grief?
These included small pox, TB, typhoid 100 years ago and advanced age and accidents in current times.
What are causes of death?
This is the idea that people adopt cultural values and moral principles in order to cope with their fear of death. They protect the individual from anxiety about their own mortality and bolsters their self-esteem.
What is terror management theory?
This is the stage of dying in which the person may blame the doctors for their diagnosis, God for their death, or their family for the problems they face.
What is anger?
This is when the action of a medication has both positive effects such as pain reduction and negative effects such as the slowing of respiration.
What is the double effect?
These are the ceremonies and behaviors that a religion or culture prescribes for people to express their grief after a death.
What is mourning?
This the place where death is most likely to occurs in current times.
What are hospitals?
These are the behaviors that those in adulthood often engage in to prevent death.
What are protective behaviors?
This stage of dying is not always achieved by the individual. The individual may not acknowledge death as part of their life and may continue to fight it until the very end.
What is acceptance?
This is when a seriously ill person is allowed to die naturally, without active attempts to prolong life. This is legal in the US.
What is passive euthanasia?
This is the interference of grief by things such as police investigations, autopsy or missing bodies.
What is incomplete grief?
These include the idea that actions during life affect destiny after death, an after life is assumed and mourners say particular prayers and make offerings to prevent the dead from haunting them.
What are the themes of death in ancient societies?
Older children often want this type of support/involvement when they are terminal.
What are facts and a role in the management of the illness?
This is thought to be a possible sixth stage of Maslow's hierarchy of needs related to dying.
What is self-transcendence?
This is medical treatment designed primarily to provide physical and emotion comfort to a dying person as well as guidance to his or her loved ones.
What is palliative care?
This is a type of grief in which certain people, although they are bereaved, are prevented from mourning publicly by cultural customs or social restrictions.
What is disenfranchised grief?