Dying and Bereavement Flashcards
(27 cards)
Active euthenasia
deliberately ending someone’s life
Ambiguous loss
loss in which their is no resolution or sense of closure (often no body)
Bereavement
the state or condition caused by loss through death
Bioethics
the study of the interaction between human life and our advancing technology in health and life science
Clinical death
lack of spontaneous heartbeat and respiration
Disenfranchised grief
a loss that appears insignificant to others but is highly consequential to the person who suffers the loss
Dual process model (DPM)
suggests that coping with bereavement involves balancing and addressing both types of stressors as part of the healing process (loss oriented stressors and restoration oriented stressors)
Loss oriented stressors
emotional and psychological challenges related to the actual loss, such as feelings of sadness, longing, and mourning
Restoration oriented stressors
challenges related to adjusting to life after the loss, such as dealing with changes in daily routines, roles, or responsibilities
End-of-life issues
issues pertaining to the management of the final phase of life, after-death disposition of the body, memorial services, and distribution of assets
Final scenario
making choices about how one does or does not want one’s life to end
Four component model
model of grief that understanding grief is based on (1) the context of the loss, (2) continuation of personal meaning associated with loss, (3) changing representations of the lost relationship over time, and (4) the role of coping and emotion regulation processes
Grief
sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss
Grief work as rumination hypothesis
an approach that not only rejects the necessity of grief processing for recovery from loss but views extensive grief processing as a form of rumination that may actually increase distress
Living will
written document that states a persons’ wishes about life support and other treatment
Model of adapting grieving dynamics (MAGD)
model of grief based on two pairs of adaptive grieving dynamics: lamenting/heartening, and integrating/tempering
Lamenting
experiencing and/or expressing grieving responses that are distressful, disheartening, and/or painful
Heartening
experiencing and/or expressing grieving responses that are gratifying, uplifting, and/or pleasurable
Integrating
assimilating internal and external changes catalyzed by a grief-inducing loss, and reconciling differences in past, present, and future realities in light of these changes
Tempering
avoiding repeated efforts to adapt to the new realities brought on by a grief-inducing loss that overwhelm the griever’s or community’s ability to cope with these changes
Mourning
the ways we express grief
Passive euthenasia
allowing a person to die by withholding available treatment
Persistent vegetative state
situation in which a person’s cortical functioning ceases while brainstem activity continues
Physician-assisted suicide
process in which physicians provide dying patients with a fatal dose of medication the patient self-administers
