LifeSpan Chapter 19

Death and Dying :)

Active euthanasia

Deliberately end patient’s life (lethal dose)

Advanced medical directive

Legal document tells person’s medical decisions

Anniversary reactions

re-experience grief during holidays/birthdays

Bereavement

coping w/sense of loss of loved one’s death

Bereavement overload

Grieve multiple people at same time

Childhood concepts of death (4 total)

Non-functionality/Irreversibility/Inevitability/Causality

Clinical death

no heartbeat

Coffin alarms

19th century devices/made due fear of buried alive

Dying trajectory

Health decline before death

What is the response to bereavement

Grief

What does grief consist of?

Hurt/anger/guilt

Hospice

Place for serious illness/dying people

Living will

Legal document that tells person’s wishes about medical care

Is living will an advanced medical directive

Yes

Palliative care

Care for serious illness people

Passive euthanasia

Withdraw treatment (ventilator) → person dies naturally

Power of Presence

Being present w/grieving person. No words needed

Preplanning

Plan loved one’s death (make will/buy burial plot)

Taphophobia

Fear of being buried alive

Thanatology

Study of death/dying

Whole brain death

Brain functions (including brain stem) stop

Stages of Grieving (by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)

Denial/fear/depression

Explain depression in stages of grief

Person accepts reality of loss/feel extent of loss in diff life areas

Explain fear as stage of grief

Anxiety from being isolated from deceased