Ch.17

Question 1

Clinical death

Answer 1

Death defined by a lack of heartbeat and respiration

Question 2

Brain death

Answer 2

Most widely excepted definition of death including no heartbeat no respiration no responsiveness no reflexes or brain activity

Question 3

Persistent vegetative state

Answer 3

A state in which a person’s cortical functioning in the brain has seized by the brainstem activity continues

Question 4

Bioethics

Answer 4

Study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences

Question 5

Euthanasia

Answer 5

Practice of ending a life for reasons of mercy

Question 6

Active euthanasia

Answer 6

Deliberate ending of someone’s life

Question 7

Passive euthanasia

Answer 7

Allowing a person to die by withholding and available treatment

Question 8

Physician-assisted suicide

Answer 8

Suicide in which a medical doctor provide the person with the knowledge or means were both required to commit suicide

Question 9

LivingWell healthcare directive

Answer 9

Document in which a person simply states his or her wishes about life support and other treatments

Question 10

Power of attorney for healthcare

Answer 10

Legal document through which an individual appoint someone to act as his or her agent for healthcare decisions and speak for the person if necessary

Question 11

End-of-life issues

Answer 11

Subjects Bellovin as a person is near death such as the use of life support interventions being a donor for organ transplantation and other healthcare options including management of final phase of life disposition a body and memorial services and distribution of assets

Question 12

Do not resuscitate order DNR

Answer 12

Instruction that cardio pulmonary resuscitation is not to be performed should one’s heart and breathing stop

Question 13

Death anxiety

Answer 13

Peoples anxiety or even fear of death and dying

Question 14

Final scenario

Answer 14

Making choices known to others about how a person wants his or her life to end

Question 15

Hospice palliative care

Answer 15

Movement that provides a supportive environment for dying people by keeping families engaged in caregiving and by providing professional assistance during this very stressful time

Question 16

Bereavement

Answer 16

State or condition caused by loss through death

Question 17

Grief

Answer 17

Sorrow hurt anger guilt confusion and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss

Question 18

Mourning

Answer 18

Culturally approved ways in which people express their grief

Question 19

Anticipatory grief

Answer 19

Grieving before the anticipated death of a person whom one is morning

Question 20

Grief work

Answer 20

Psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement

Question 21

Anniversary reaction

Answer 21

Changes in behaviour related to feelings of sadness on the actual anniversary of death

Question 22

Four component model

Answer 22

Framework for understanding grief based on ;context of the loss, continuation of subject meaning associated with loss, changing representation of the lost relationship overtime and role of coping and emotion regulation processes

Question 23

Grief work as rumination hypothesis

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Theory that only rejects the necessity of grief processing for recovery from lost but views extensive grief processing as a form of rumination that me actually increased distress

Question 24

Dual process model

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Framework for coping with bereavement that shows how bereaved people cycle back-and-forth between dealing mostly with grief and trying to move on with life

Question 25

Complicated or prolonged grief disorder

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Grief that continues to interfere indefinitely with one’s ability to function and features separation distress and traumatic distress

Question 26

Separation distress

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Experience a preoccupation with the deceased to the point that it interferes with every day functioning

Question 27

Traumatic distress

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Experience of disbelief about the death miss trust anger and attachment from others as a result of death feeling shocked by the death experience of physical presence of the deceased

Question 28

Thanatology

Answer 28

The study of death, dying, grief, bereavement and social attitudes towards issues