History
What are some different ways individuals respond to pandemics?
-Pandemic denial and anti masking
-Misinformation and scapegoating
-Anti-vaccination movement
-Have a major impact on social costs and implications
What is dying with dignity and what does it look like?
It is an individual's personal or emotional sense of feeling worthy, esteemed, and respected
- Maintaining client/patient's dignity with ethics, well-being, building better relationships, fairness and equality
-Strong communication, privacy, asking permission, providing info, being culturally competent, helping people live independently as they are comfortable, allowing the dying person to participate in activities they find meaningful
-Subjective of what we believe dignity is
Bereavement
The term that refers to the fact of a loss
Can be an event or individual where the importance lies in who commissioned the works and the subject of the works
Monument
Thinking
The brainstorming stage; what kind of end of life do I want, what do I want done with my body, what would make me feel at peace, who should my pallbearers be, who should speak at my funeral, are there any religious or cultural traditions I want to follow?
Genocide vs. War Crimes vs. Crimes Against Humanity
Genocide: intent to destroy a targeted group
War Crime: violation of the laws or customs of war
Crimes Against Humanity: atrocities and offences committed against civil population as part of a widespread attack
Funeral director's role
The emotional, cognitive, functional, and behavioural response to death
Grief
Commemoration
Showing respect to a person or event (sweaters, jewelry, tattoos, etc.)
What does the learning stage look like?
You learn what your decisions will mean for you (people in this stage should be researching and asking questions, making sure they know all of the information on what they have brainstormed)
This term was created in response to actions of Nazis in WW2
Genocide; there's 5 categories...
-Killing members of the group
-Causing serious bodily/mental harm to members
-Inflicting on the group conditions of life
-Measures to prevent births within the group
-Forcibly transferring children of group to another group (assimilation)
Hospice care
Types of grief
Loud and abstract type of memorials that are meant to engage and challenge viewers to see many perspectives (example: Tunnel Through Time, Hungarian and Canadian cultures connecting)
Contemporary memorials
Wills
Each province and territory have their own rules regarding hat has to happen when someone passes. For Saskatchewan, you must register the death on Ehealth Sask website
List some genocides that have happened
-Holocaust
-Rwandan
-Indigenous
-Palestine
-Russia/Ukraine
MAiD
Medical assistance in dying; a person seeks help in ending their life
-Clinician administered or self-administered
-Getting access involves connecting with the team, review medical history, independent assessments, written request, provision (time, place, date)
Refers to the expression of how we are dealing with loss
Mourning
How do memorials help us grieve and why do we need them?
How: creates a central place to visit, allows storytelling, helps us focus on the positive, brings loved ones together, preserves memory, provides comfort and closure in later years
Why: leads to higher risk of mental and physical health problems if grief is ignored (depression, heart disease, apathy, social isolation), lower quality of life
Who is the substitute decision maker who's in charge of the deciding what happens to you if you are unable to make those judgements for yourself? (usually a partner or next of kin)
Power of attorney (POA)
Known as the most fatal plague in human history
What is palliative care?
-Improving quality of living and dying
-Placing patient's values and wishes first
-Managing stress
-Treating and controlling symptoms
-Reduced pain and suffering
-Mitigating consequences of a disease
-Providing support for patients and families
What are some grief theories?
Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Parke's Psycho-Social Elaborations
Worden's Four Tasks of Mourning
Silverman and Klass (continuing bonds theory)
Stroebe and Schutt
Idea that events or places are disputed by one or more parties, either directly involved or not and people will remember events differently, leading to different thoughts and feelings
Contested memory
Who must be contacted following a death?
-Canada revenue agency
-Canada pension plan
-Employment insurance
-Credit reporting agencies
-Passport/service Canada
-National student loan program
-Canada post
-Social insurance number program