Ch. 1 and 2

Question 1

Suffering

Answer 1

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with being alive. To suffer means to “endure death, pain, or distress, to sustain loss or damage, to be subject to disability or handicap”

Question 2

acute pain

Answer 2

sharp, severe pain that has sudden onsets and lasts only a short time

Question 3

chronic pain

Answer 3

long-term; suffering that may never be relieved

Question 4

physical pain

Answer 4

acute or chronic

Question 5

psychological pain

Answer 5

mental or emotional

Question 6

spiritual pain

Answer 6

dark night of the soul, times of uncertainty and doubt

Question 7

first evil

Answer 7

exists because humans are subject to birth and death in a limited imperfect world (sickness, aging, mortality, tangled emotional involvements, separated from loved ones, childbirth, hunger pangs, environmental evils, etc)

Question 8

second evil

Answer 8

evils that people inflict on each other (man’s inhumanity to man); suffering can be personal or impersonal (wrong place, wrong time)

Question 9

third evil

Answer 9

caused by evils we bring upon ourselves by our own thoughts or actions

Question 10

paradise

Answer 10

a perfect world; a heaven on earth in which people walk and talk with god

Question 11

nirvana

Answer 11

a blissful state of perfect happiness, in which there is no sufferingor death

Question 12

utopia

Answer 12

a perfect, or ideal, society

Question 13

passion

Answer 13

Latin meaning “ to suffer”; to be passionate means to experience intense, driving, overwhelming emotion and feeling. It also means having a strong liking toward, desire for, or ardent desire to something or someone

Question 14

compassion

Answer 14

to suffer with others; to be moved by the suffering of others in such a way that we try to alleviate that suffering

Question 15

faith

Answer 15

a theological virtue that enables us to believe that God exists and loves for us. it also enables us to have a personal relationship with God and to live by the gospel values despite situations of suffering and pain

Question 16

resiliance

Answer 16

the ability to handle whatever life gives us. Thriving despite the problems they are having

Question 17

heaven

Answer 17

a state of being, a mode of existence, in which one is in complete and total union with God

Question 18

purgatory

Answer 18

a state of being, a mode of existence, in which one prepares (cleansing, purifying, purging) for complete and total union with God

Question 19

hell

Answer 19

a state of being, a mode of existence, in which one is completely and totally separated from God

Question 20

death

Answer 20

the permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions: (1) total brain function, (2) spontaneous function of the respiratory system, and (3) spontaneous function of the circulatory system

Question 21

coroner

Answer 21

public official given the responsibility of determining the cause of death in cases where death is not from a natural or apparent reason. The coroner is also responsible for the disposition of unclaimed bodies.

Question 22

cooling (algor mortis)

Answer 22

The temperature of the body drops. The amount of cooling depends on the environmental temp., clothing type, and the amount of body fat.

Question 23

rigidity (rigor mortis)

Answer 23

five to ten hours after death, the muscles usually stiffen. Jaw muscles often stiffen first. The muscles again relax after three or four days.

Question 24

blood clotting

Answer 24

the blood clots shortly after death; sometimes clotting occurs before the heart stops

Question 25

staining (livor mortis)

Answer 25

gravity draws unclotted blood downward resulting in reddish-blue discoloration on portions of the body

Question 26

cell breakdown

Answer 26

this occurs due to lack of blood supply

Question 27

putrefaction

Answer 27

after death, decomposing bacteria and fungi start to work, producing gases, greenish discoloration of the tissues, and a foul smell

Question 28

deceased

Answer 28

a person who has died

Question 29

decedent

Answer 29

a dead person, including a stillborn or fetus

Question 30

cryonics

Answer 30

the practice of freezing a person who has died of disease, with the hope of bringing him or her back to life in the future when a cure for the disease has been found

Question 31

gerontology

Answer 31

the study of aging

Question 32

thanatology

Answer 32

the study of death

Question 33

necromancy

Answer 33

supposed communication with the dead

Question 34

spiritualism

Answer 34

attempts to communicate with spirits and departed souls by Seances, Ouija boards, and other methods. Spiritualistic practices, which often involve fraud, are considered a violation of the virtue of religion because they attribute spirits’ certain godlike powers over the present and future

Question 35

communion of all saints

Answer 35

The union of all faithful people, living and dead, eo belong to the family of God