Chapter 2

Question 1

Death related experiences include (3)

Answer 1

death related encounters
death related attitudes
death related practices

Question 2

death related encounters

Answer 2

how do we come or meet with death in our lives

Question 3

death related attitudes

Answer 3

what are our feelings or outlooks about death

Question 4

Five principal features define contemporary encounters with death

Answer 4

1. death rates
2. average life expectancy
3. causes of death
4. dying trajectories
5. Place where death occurs

Question 5

Death rates

Answer 5

number of people who die within a specific time period or within a specific group of ppl

typically expressed per 1,000 or 100,000 persons

Question 6

changes in death rates and implications

Answer 6

dramatic reduction since 1900

• Americans encounter death much less frequently than previous generations
• Death often seems strange and alien

Question 7

changes in death rates within gender and social class

Answer 7

death rates for males are higher than those for females

middle and upper class have lower death rates that lower class

Question 8

Most dramatic changes in death rates of infants

Answer 8

dramatic reductions in infant death rate (28 times lower)

5.82 per 1000
US lags behind 26 other countries

Question 9

Most dramatic changes in death rates of maternal deaths

Answer 9

reduction from 108/100,000 to 26.4

more than half of maternal deaths are thought to be preventable

Question 10

Average life expectancy and changes

Answer 10

(ALE) an estimate of the average number of years a group of people will live

increased from less than 50 to 78.8

Question 11

Leading cause of death then and now

Answer 11

1900 communicable diseases - acute diseases transmitted from person to person

2014 degenerative diseases - a set of chronic conditions or causes

 1. long term wearing out of organs
2. deterioration associated with aging, lifestyle, and environment

Question 12

Dying trajectories

Answer 12

defines by duration and shape

duration - the time between the onset of dying and the arrival of death

shape - the course of the dying process
(predictable? expected?)

Question 13

different ______ are associated with different dying trajectories

Answer 13

causes of death

Question 14

changes in place of death

Answer 14

THEN
- death mainly occurred at home
- family involved in caring for the dying and after death rituals
NOW
- hospitals or care facilities
- professionals care for the dying
- family just spectates

Question 15

Factors associated with changes in encounters with death (6)

Answer 15

1. Industrialization
2. Public Health measures
3. Preventative health care
4. rise of modern cure-oriented medicine
5. nature of contemporary families
6. lifestyle