QUIZ chapter 1-3 Flashcards
The Death Cafe movement and its gatherings:
have risen spontaneously
The modern death awareness movement, emphasizing research and writing about death-related experiences, began around __________.
the late 1950s through the early 1970
“Thanatology” is __________.
the study of death-related topics
Death-related experiences include which of the following:
death related practices
A person who enrolls in a course in the field of death, dying, and bereavement in order to be better prepared to work as a nurse is primarily expressing a concern about:
vocational reasons
The booklet, Lessons from Lions, uses slides from the Disney movie, The Lion King to encourage discussions about such common but unhelpful reactions following a loss as
Never telling anyone about your grief reactions
During 2014 in the United States, there were _________ deaths
more than 2.6 million
Diseases with patterns of gradually losing control over one’s bodily functions and mental capacities are most likely to be_________.
degenerative diseases with a long dying trajectory
A situation in which I try to hold onto my life for fear of losing so many things that are important to me is an example of:
Death-related attitudes about my own death
According to Ariès, “death denied” is characterized by:
Limited mourning in public
New funerary rites invented in the United States
The dying person is deprived of his or her own death
