Liminal Things
True or False: Physical pain is a regularly reported feature of NDEs.
False
Medical advancements in modernity changed how we define _________.
This word literally means "a good death."
Euthanasia
True or False: Many scholars argue that grief is universal.
True
_____________ is an acronym that describes the process that allows a terminally ill patient to request a prescription for medication to end their life.
MAID
According to scholars who study past-life memories, these physical characteristics from previous lives can reappear in current lives.
Birthmarks, etc.
The hospice movement began in this country.
Physician-assisted suicide laws in Oregon, Washington, and Vermont apply only to patients who are terminally ill and likely to die in ____ months.
Six
One of the most influential books about mortality in the United States, On Death and Dying, was written by ________.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Sir Edwin Chadwick, a sanitary reformer, claimed that bodies gave off a _________, and therefore should not be kept in private homes.
Miasma
Belief in _____ does not require equating these with the returned soul of the dead.
ghosts
Earlier medical definitions of death focused solely on this organ.
Heart
Prolongation of quantity of life, but not quality; increased medicalization of the dying process; lack of public space for discussing mortality ... These are all examples of what people call the "plague of bad _____."
dying
Elisaebth Kübler-Ross’ “Five Stages of Grief” was first applied to this group of people.
Terminally Ill
In order to receive hospice care, a physician must certify that an individual's life expectancy is _______ months; however, most patients do not enter hospice until roughly _______ weeks before their death.
6; 2
This is the name for hypnosis thought which allows access to memories of an existence in-between earthly incarnations.
Life-Between-Lives
Until the mid-19th century, families usually kept their dead at home between death and burial, often up to _____ days.
10
Part of a recent movement, these people help with nonmedical services for people who are dying, including by providing social, spiritual, and/or psychological support and planning for memorials and/or funerals.
Death Doulas
________ is the term for how grief is expressed in public.
Mourning
Transhumanists believe _________ can give humans capabilities far exceeding present-day human capability
What religious movement centered around the belief in personal survival of bodily death as proven by mediumistic communications?
spiritualism
This kind of photography captured the living with the recently deceased.
Memento Mori
In the United States, this movement began with the case of Karen Quinlan.
Right-to-Die
________________ grief occurs before the actual loss.
Anticipatory
In the US the ___________ of dead bodies is not required by state or federal law, although many funeral homes present it as if it is a requirement.
Embalmment