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While rituals and customs in mourning vary greatly within and across cultures, common goals include: announcing the death, __________ , celebrating the life of the deceased, and conveying a philosophy of life after death.
What is ensuring social support?
According to a study of Oregon patients requesting medical aid-in-dying, the top 2 reasons were:
What is loss of autonomy and less able to engage in enjoyable activities?
Factors that affect a child's understanding of death include: experience with death, cultural practices and religious teachings, and _____.
What is candid, sensitive discussions with adults?
According to Kübler-Ross, the 5 coping strategies of grief are:
What are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance?
Most Americans say they hope to die __________ (location).
What is at home?
While ____ has comprehensive treatment programs, trained staff, they are often depersonalizing and may not meet wishes of the dying individual.
What are hospitals?
Grief stricken ______ are more likely than school-age children to become depressed or to act out.
What are teenagers?
Death education that utilizes a _____ format is more likely to have a positive, lasting impact. This includes role-playing, discussions with terminally ill, personal awareness exercises.
What is experiential?
About _____ of Americans die at home.
What is 1/4?
Most people say they want “death with _____.”
What is dignity?
Most children attain an adultlike understanding by age ____.
What is 6?
In death education, _____ format imparts knowledge but may increase discomfort.
What is lecture?
True or false: when communicating with dying people, it is important to be truthful about the diagnosis, course of disease.
What is true?
______ is a comprehensive program of support for terminally ill and their families that focuses on quality of life.
What is hospice care?
True or false: Evidence shows that music therapy can reduce pain.
What is true?
According to Kübler-Ross, there are ____ stages of grief that are more like _____ than fixed stages.
What are 5, coping strategies?
What us thanology?
A “good death” includes achieving _______ and confronting and preparing for death.
What is a sense of control?
In regard to defining death, ____ death is irreversible cessation of all activity in brain and brain stem. It is the standard for death in most industrialized nations.
What is brain?
In the grief process, avoidance is considered “emotional ______”.
What is anesthesia?