Death itself
This phenomenon occurs when persons continue experiencing clinically and socially impactful consequences after someone's passing, oftentimes up to half a year or later of debilitating symptoms.
What is complicated grief or prolonged grief disorder?
This initiative started back in the 1960s, providing recently widowed women to gather and share in the support of other widows who have lost partners.
What is a Widow-to-Widow program?
These events fall under an umbrella term that focuses on processing loss, such as gathering in one place with friends and families, praying and/or offering spiritual practices for the deceased, and deciding on the desired manner to process the deceased's remains.
What are forms of mourning?
This is the state of the brain where there is no electrical activity; any at all action potentials or brain waves cease to be measured.
What is brain death?
This entails creating legal and medical documentation prior to one's death, providing family members and medical providers guidance for what to do in the event of one's passing.
What is advance care planning?
Extra credit; What are examples of this?
This medical situation started between a husband and the patient's immediate family, then escalated into a global conundrum that asked major questions such as; is quality of life more important than quantity, or how absolute are living wills?
What is the Teri Schiavo case?
These hypothesized procedures are what some theorists say most people navigate as they approach the end of their life or process the loss of someone else.
What are the Kubler-Ross stages of dying?
This specialized program is meant to ease any pain, anxiety, or overall discomfort during the death process particularly while keeping a person at home.
What is hospice?
This is the active process of ending someone or something's life before biological death occurs naturally.
What is euthanasia?
This term states that persons in mourning rely on two different forms of processing to navigate loss; loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented stressors.
What is the dual-process model of coping with bereavement?
Extra credit: What specific activities may people do to navigate these stressors?
This is a process that allows a terminally diagnosed and sound of mind person to end their life.
What is assisted suicide?
These forms of communication include; genuineness, direct language and intonation, supportiveness, and active listening?
What are strategies for communicating with a dying person?