Death Systems
Hospice
End of Life Decisions
Death Trivia
Healthcare
100
bomb shelters, bug spray, and eating chicken are all components of this.
What is a death system?
100
To be admitted into hospice, you must have a terminal prognosis of this many months.
What are six months?
100
The direct involvement of a physician in the ending of a patient's life.
What is euthanasia?
100
Teens are most likely to die from this cause.
What are accidents?
100
Intended to extent people's life, this type of insurance may have the latent function of killing its owner.
What is health insurance?
200
Weather forecasts serve this component of a death system.
What is preventing death (or warning/ predicting death)?
200
This demographic group is underrepresented in hospice due to society's idea that their lives should be extended as long as possible; despite the suffering that may accompany it.
What are children?
200
The removal of this piece of pulmonary life-saving technology, with the idea that patient will survive without it, may actually result in the death of the patient it was meant to save.
What is a ventilator?
200
This word means "fear of death"
What is thanatophobia?
200
Doctors who have a postconventional attitude about this, are more likely to agree to a patient's wishes to pursue it.
What is physician-assisted suicide?
300
People, places, things, and symbols are this part of a death system.
What are components?
300
This racial group is over-represented in hospice.
What are White Americans?
300
To avoid burdening family and friends with end of life decisions, a person may prepare this document which will express their wishes as they are dying.
What is an advanced directive?
300
Forced to relocate, a church in downtown New Haven now hosts these items in its basement, while the items they once marked are still buried beneath the green.
What are tombstones?
300
This group of professionals have just as much of this as everyday people, which can make being 100% impartial difficult.
What is implicit bias?
400
Pests, livestock, and irredeemable criminals are living things that experience this function of the death system.
What is sanctioned killing?
400
This type of hospice care gives home caregivers a break, as well as the patient.
What is respite care?
400
Failure to complete this document, which comes into effect immediately upon signing, may result in your loved ones going to probate court to contest the assets in your will.
What is a living trust?
400
Country where invented virtual reality technology program allowed people to connect to with passed loved ones.
What is South Korea?
400
Curing people of diseases was considered this; a result of our capitalist economic system.
What is a bad business model? (Or close to it)
500
The person who invented the concept of a death system.
Who is Robert Kastenbaum?
500
The founder of hospice.
Who is Cicely Saunders?
500
In North Carolina, a person must be on their deathbed and in the presence of two competent witnesses specifically requested to bear witness in order to legalize this type of legally binding contractual agreement.
What are verbal instructions? (Verbal AD, verbal living will, etc.)
500
Dressed as a rapper, Angel Pantoja Medina, appeared at his own funeral after being shot and thrown off a bridge in his underwear. He was from this unincorporated US territory.
What is Puerto Rico?
500
A patient who wants to explore alternative medicine has this type of personality.
What is openness to experience?