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L&M Chapter 19
Death and Dying
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Functional Death | The absence of a heartbeat and breathing |
| Brain Death | A diagnosis of death based on the cessation of all signs of brain activity, as measured by electrical brain waves. |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | The unexplained death of a seemingly health baby |
| Thanatologists | People who study death and dying |
| Kubler-Ross 5 Steps toward death | Denial (shock), Anger (emotion), Bargaining, Depression (reactive or preparatory), and Acceptance. |
| Preparatory Depression: | People feel sadness over future losses. Example: end to relationships with others, and not able to see future generations |
| Reactive Depression: | The feelings of sadness are based on events that have already occurred. Example: the loss of dignity that may accompany medical procedures, the end of a job, or the knowledge that one will never return from the hospital to one's home. |
| Living Will | A legal document designating what medical treatments people want or do not want if they cannot express their wishes (including DNR) |
| Euthanasia | The practice of assisting people who are terminally ill to die more quickly |
| Home Care | An alternative to hospitalization in which dying people stay in their homes and receive treatment from their families and visiting medical staff. |
| Hospice Care | Care provided for the dying in institutions devoted to those who are terminally ill. |
| Bereavement | Acknowledgement of the objective fact that one has experienced a death. |
| Grief | The emotional response to one's loss. Entails shock, numbness, disbelief, or outright denial and may continue on with regular routines. |
| Prolonged Grief Disorder | A type of mourning that continues unceasingly for months and years. |
| Some studies find that the risk of death is as much as __ times higher than normal in the first year after the death of a spouse. | SEVEN |
| Who have the highest suicide rates? | White males over 85 |
| SIDS common age | 2-4 months |
| Most frequent cause of death in childhood/adolescents | Accidents |
| Adolescents view of death is? | Unrealistic and highly romanticized |
| Criticism of Kubler-Ross | Not applicable to a groups of people or situations, because they may go through steps in different order or ways. |
| Assisted Suicide | When a person provides means for a patient to commit suicide- Dr. Kavorkian |
| Voluntary and Passive Euthanasia | Patient asks that no extraordinary care be given |
| Voluntary and Active Euthanasia | Patient asks to be helped to die (mercy killing?) |
| Involuntary and Passive Euthanasia | An adult other than the patient requests that no extraordinary treatment be given |
| Involuntary and Active |
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