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Death and Dying Flashcards

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A frequently observed decline in cognitive abilities near the end of life. Also called terminal decline.

A. Terminal Drop
B. Clinical Death
C. Persistent Vegetative State
D. Bioethics

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A. Terminal Drop

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Lack of heartbeat. Now it was characterized as whole-brain death.

A. Terminal Drop
B. Clinical Death
C. Persistent Vegetative State
D. Bioethics

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B. Clinical Death

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A situation in which a person’s cortical functioning ceases while brainstem activity continues (reflexes such as breathing)

A. Terminal Drop
B. Clinical Death
C. Persistent Vegetative State
D. Bioethics

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C. Persistent Vegetative State

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is a study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life science.

A. Terminal Drop
B. Clinical Death
C. Persistent Vegetative State
D. Bioethics

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D. Bioethics

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The practice of ending life for reasons of mercy.

A. Euthanasia
B. Active Euthanasia
C. Passive Euthanasia
D. Assisted Suicide

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A. Euthanasia

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the deliberate ending of someone’s life.

A. Euthanasia
B. Active Euthanasia
C. Passive Euthanasia
D. Assisted Suicide

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B. Active Euthanasia

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Allowing a person to die by withholding available treatment.

A. Euthanasia
B. Active Euthanasia
C. Passive Euthanasia
D. Assisted Suicide

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C. Passive Euthanasia

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A physician or someone else helps a person bring about a self-inflicted death by, for example, prescribing or obtaining drugs or enabling a patient to inhale a deadly gas—commonly refers to situations in which people with incurable, terminal illnesses request help in ending their lives.

A. Euthanasia
B. Active Euthanasia
C. Passive Euthanasia
D. Assisted Suicide

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D. Assisted Suicide

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Others shop for another diagnosis, there must be a mistake.

A. Denial
B. Anger
C. Bargaining
D. Depression
E. Acceptance

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A. Denial

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” why me?”

A. Denial
B. Anger
C. Bargaining
D. Depression
E. Acceptance

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B. Anger

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to look for a way out.

A. Denial
B. Anger
C. Bargaining
D. Depression
E. Acceptance

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C. Bargaining

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when pain cannot be denied, there is deep loss, sorrow, guilt.

A. Denial
B. Anger
C. Bargaining
D. Depression
E. Acceptance

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D. Depression

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Accepts death as inevitable.

A. Denial
B. Anger
C. Bargaining
D. Depression
E. Acceptance

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E. Acceptance

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It makes us feel uncomfortable, it is ethereal in nature. This anxiety is a complex and multidimensional construct.

A. Death Anxiety
B. Terror Management Theory
C. End-of-Life Issues
D. Final Scenario
E. Life Review

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A. Death Anxiety

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Addresses the issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality.

A. Death Anxiety
B. Terror Management Theory
C. End-of-Life Issues
D. Final Scenario
E. Life Review

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B. Terror Management Theory

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Issues pertaining to the management of the final phase of life, after-death disposition of their body and memorial services, and distribution of assets.

A. Death Anxiety
B. Terror Management Theory
C. End-of-Life Issues
D. Final Scenario
E. Life Review

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C. End-of-Life Issues

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Making one’s choices known about how they do and do not want their lives to end.

A. Death Anxiety
B. Terror Management Theory
C. End-of-Life Issues
D. Final Scenario
E. Life Review

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D. Final Scenario

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Reminiscence about one’s life to see its significance.

A. Death Anxiety
B. Terror Management Theory
C. End-of-Life Issues
D. Final Scenario
E. Life Review

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E. Life Review

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Care aimed at relieving pain and suffering and allowing the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and dignity.

A. Palliative Care
B. Hospice
C. Inpatient Hospices
D. Outpatient Hospices

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A. Palliative Care

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An approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management, or palliative care, and death with dignity.

A. Palliative Care
B. Hospice
C. Inpatient Hospices
D. Outpatient Hospices

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B. Hospice

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Provide all care for clients.

A. Palliative Care
B. Hospice
C. Inpatient Hospices
D. Outpatient Hospices

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C. Inpatient Hospices

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Provide services to clients who remain in their own homes

A. Palliative Care
B. Hospice
C. Inpatient Hospices
D. Outpatient Hospices

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D. Outpatient Hospices

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In the first few hours or days after the death, the bereaved person is often in a daze—gripped by a sense of unreality and disbelief and almost empty of feelings.

A. Numbness
B. Yearning
C. Disorganization and Despair
D. Reorganization

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A. Numbness

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As the numbing sense of shock and disbelief diminishes, the bereaved person experiences more agony.

A. Numbness
B. Yearning
C. Disorganization and Despair
D. Reorganization

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B. Yearning

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As time passes, pangs of intense grief and yearning become less frequent, although they still occur. As it sinks in that a reunion with the loved one is impossible, depression, despair, and apathy,

A. Numbness
B. Yearning
C. Disorganization and Despair
D. Reorganization

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C. Disorganization and Despair

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Eventually, bereaved people begin to pull themselves together again as their pangs of grief and periods of apathy become less frequent. They invest less emotional energy in their attachment to the deceased and more in their attachments to the living.

A. Numbness
B. Yearning
C. Disorganization and Despair
D. Reorganization

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D. Reorganization

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the sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering loss.

A. Grief
B. Bereavement
C. Mourning
D. Grief Work

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A. Grief

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the state or condition caused by loss through death.

A. Grief
B. Bereavement
C. Mourning
D. Grief Work

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B. Bereavement

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the ways in which we express our grief.

A. Grief
B. Bereavement
C. Mourning
D. Grief Work

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C. Mourning

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The psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement.

A. Grief
B. Bereavement
C. Mourning
D. Grief Work

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D. Grief Work

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The context of the loss, referring to the risk factors such as whether the death was expected. The role of coping and emotion regulation processes that cover all coping strategies used to deal with grief.

A. Four-Component Model
B. Loss-Oriented Stressors
C. Restorative-Oriented Stressors

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A. Four-Component Model

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Concern the loss itself, such as the grief work that needs to be done.

A. Four-Component Model
B. Loss-Oriented Stressors
C. Restorative-Oriented Stressors

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B. Loss-Oriented Stressors

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Are those that involve adapting to the survivor’s new life situation, such as building new relationships and finding new activities.

A. Four-Component Model
B. Loss-Oriented Stressors
C. Restorative-Oriented Stressors

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C. Restorative-Oriented Stressors

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An individual with prolonged grief disorder may experience intense longing for the person who has died or preoccupation with thoughts of that person. In children and adolescents, the preoccupation may focus on the circumstances around the death.

A. Excessive Guilt
B. Self-Blame
C. Symptoms of Separation Distress
D. Symptoms of Traumatic Distress

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A. Excessive Guilt B. Self-Blame

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the attribution that the consequences one experiences are a direct result of one’s actions or character.

A. Excessive Guilt
B. Self-Blame
C. Symptoms of Separation Distress
D. Symptoms of Traumatic Distress

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B. Self-Blame

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Such as preoccupation with the deceased to the point that it interferes with everyday functioning, upsetting memories of the deceased, longing and searching for the deceased, isolation following the loss.

A. Excessive Guilt
B. Self-Blame
C. Symptoms of Separation Distress
D. Symptoms of Traumatic Distress

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C. Symptoms of Separation Distress

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Such as feeling disbelief about the death, mistrust, anger, and detachment from others because of the death, feeling shocked by the death, and the experience of physical presence of the deceased

A. Excessive Guilt
B. Self-Blame
C. Symptoms of Separation Distress
D. Symptoms of Traumatic Distress

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D. Symptoms of Traumatic Distress

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It is the cessation of life and of all life processes, such as movement, sensation, and thought.

A. Finality
B. Irreversibility
C. Universality
D. Biological Causality

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A. Finality

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It cannot be undone.

A. Finality
B. Irreversibility
C. Universality
D. Biological Causality

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B. Irreversibility

40
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It is inevitable and happens to all living beings.

A. Finality
B. Irreversibility
C. Universality
D. Biological Causality

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C. Universality

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It is the result of natural processes internal to the organism, even if external causes set off these internal changes.

A. Finality
B. Irreversibility
C. Universality
D. Biological Causality

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D. Biological Causality

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