End of Life and Grief Lecture Vocabulary

A set of 30 vocabulary flashcards covering end-of-life care, euthanasia, grief types, bereavement statistics, and aging factors.

Near death experiences

Spiritual experiences during which survivors may adopt a more peaceful or religious lifestyle after.

Good death

A death that is peaceful, quick, painless, occurs after a long life, in the company of family and friends, and in familiar surroundings.

Bad death

A death that lacks the 6 characteristics of a good death.

Modern medicine (end of life)

Can make death for young people quick and painless and treated effectively, but can also make death bad by prolonging it through surgeries, medicines, and impossible cures.

Conversations before death

Honest conversations with family and healthcare providers that most people want to have before death.

Five stages of grief

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.

Hospice

Considered one of the better ways to die due to the extent of care provided.

Barriers to hospice

Must be terminally ill, patients must accept death, costly, availability, and ethnic differences.

Place of death

The location where most people die, which is in some sort of institution.

Palliative care

Cares to treat physical and emotional support.

Double effect

Ethical situation where there is a positive and negative effect.

Passive euthanasia

Allows for natural death to occur.

Active euthanasia

Allows for medical intervention to end suffering.

DNR

Do Not Resuscitate; no revival attempts for a patient suffering a cardiac or respiratory arrest.

Unbearable suffering

Includes fatigue, pain, decline, negative feelings, loss of self, fear of future, dependency/loss of autonomy, and living in a tired or unbearable state.

Advance directive

Instructions for end of life medical care, written before such condition occurs.

Living will

A form of advance directive specifying instructions for end of life medical care.

Health care proxy

Interventionist that makes decisions for a patient unable to do so.

Bereavement

Sense of loss following a death.

Absent grief

A form of grief where people are cut off from community.

Disenfranchised grief

Grief involving the prevention of public mourning.

Incomplete grief

Grief cut short if distractions interfere with the process.

Recovery from bereavement

Involves diversity in reactions, where bereaved people recover within a year and personality affects the process.

Resilient (grief group)

A grief outcome category quantified as 66.

Depressed (grief group)

A grief outcome category quantified as 15.

Less depressed after death than before

A grief outcome category quantified as 10.

Complicated grief

A grief outcome category quantified as 9.

Single preference

The trend where some people are preferring to stay single.

Avg. lifespan

The average lifespan recorded as 75, with more men dying sooner than women.

Faster aging factors

Factors including Fool Weather, stress, pollution, radiation, smoking, and falls.