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Samurai warriors suicide for honor
What does the term mean (from feudal Japanese society): Seppuku?
Sati dying during husband creamtion
What does the term mean (from past Indian society): Suttee? Or Sati?
he forced followers to drink poison
What happened in the Jim Jones mass suicide on 11/20/78
there is nowhere to turn and nothing good can be achieved
What is Fatalistic Suicide?
Michelle
Explain how ambivalence is an important facet of suicidal ideation.
unbearable mental pain due to needs not being met
Explain what Schneidman meant when he said “suicide is caused by psych-ache.”
Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar, or another mood disorder (DABS)
Most suicides are the outcome of a disease in the brain.” List the diseases. DABS
low level seratonin or its neurotransmitter possibly = suicidal
Regarding the role of biologic factors in suicide, what is the role of 5-HIAA?
end their live to escape
Suicide escape
no longer wishes to continue. want to solve a problem
Cry for help suicide
person hastens thier demise
Subintentional & Chronic suicide
Native Americans: Cultural disruption and stress due to being forced onto reservations. African American: consider suicide weak
Explain how each of the following is a risk factor in suicide: culture/race
individual person
Explain how each of the following is a risk factor in suicide
Exposure worsens problems
Explain the suicide risk for soldiers.
suicide, war
In 2012 there were more deaths from ______ than from ____
Family problems, substance abuse, social disruption, psychiatric diagnosis, and interpersonal conflict FISSP
list any five of the risk factors in youthful suicide. FISSP
one person’s suicide triggers another
What are Cluster Suicides?
Suicide pacts between strangers who meet on internet
What is “Net Suicide”?
Difficulties in career or marriage. An accumulation of negative life events, affective disorders and alcoholism
Contrast the reasons for suicide among the following age groups:Middle age adults
divorced or widowed, living alone and psychiatric or physical illness
Contrast the reasons for suicide among the following age groups:Older adults
Tell the whole story
Suicide notes provide clues about the intentions and emotions that lead a person to suicide; but they rarely_____
Jewish tradition, lives are measured by their deeds and whether they’ve lived to their potential. They believe in a heaven and a hell and ghosts that enter through dreams
Summarize any one of the religious beliefs about death.
Face the idea of death
you realize seperation from body
Calmness, enter tunnel
Light calls you, flashbacks start
Someone greets you, but it's not your time
Regarding Near Death Experience (NDE):Give a full description listing EACH step.:
sense of what is important in life
What did Kenneth Ring find in regard to life changes in people who experienced a NDE?:
No
Do all people who have a NDE experience all of the stages?
news of their death, departs body, encounters someone, and returns to body
List the four core elements of NDE’s.
images sounds. purification/incomplete
Describe the so-called hellish NDE’s and possible reasons.
Drugs: visions could be side effect of medication
Cerebral anoxia: oxygen deprivation
False sight: hallucinations
On this page are listed ten theories of an NDE. Explain any thre
finding scientific proof of life after death is unthinkable.
Raymond Moody, who coined the term Near-Death Experience (and who wrote the first book on it in 1975) said what about the scientific proof of NDE’s?
Assistance given to survivors of suicide and family members
What is Postvention in suicide?
Giving away possessions, sudden or extreme changes in eating and sleeping, withdrawal from friends and family, changes in school or job performance, use of drugs or alcohol, personality changes
List 6 warning signs.
excuse failure to respond
An important myth is: “People who talk about suicide don’t actual do it.” Explain.
suicide, combat
In 2012 there were more deaths from _____ than from _______
individual and society is shattered
No degree of Social Regulation (Anomic)
person has social connectedness their personal identity is diminished
High degree of Social Integration (Altruistic)
too few ties with community and becomes dependant on their own
Low degree of Social Integration (Egoistic)
subject 's mental state prior to death
What is a Psychological Autopsy?
engage in criminal actions that police kill them
Explain “suicide by cop.”
evidence the accident was suicide
Explain how a death that may actually have been a suicide was called a: Auto accident (called "autocide)
crime
Discuss objections to the word “commit” as in “commit suicide.”
38,000
Over _________ people die by suicide every year in the U.S.
Addiction: drug seeking behavior occurs Physical dependence: abstinence syndrome after patient stops
What is the difference between addiction & physical dependence?
professionals misunderstanding about opioid prevent patients from pain control
What is the not-so-good news about pain management?
not difficult to assess and treat physicians are paying more attention
What is the good news about pain management?
Morphine
What drug is most commonly associated with advanced disease?
90% become pain free
When the stepwise method is used, how effective is it in stopping pain?
low risk medication first, and then harder drugsif the first or second level doesn’t work
How is pain medication managed in a stepwise fashion?
Acute pain is an essential biological signal of the potential for or the extent of injury. Chronic pain is defined as paint that is persistent for longer than 3-6 months
Explain the difference between acute and chronic pain
positive response to a treatment that a person believes to be an effective therapy.
How does a Placebo work?
Meditation, imagery, music and art therapy, reflexology, bioenergetics, massage therapy, chiropractic treatment and acupuncture
Be able to list any 8 of the 21 Alternative Therapies listed on this page.
Chemotherapy works by blocking metabolic processes involved in cellular division. They damage healthy and cancerous tissue. Side effects include: hair loss, nausea, sleeplessness, problems with eating and digestion, mouth sores, ulceration and bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract
Chemotherapy
Radiation affects both normal and cancerous tissues, cancer cells are damaged more seriously because they grow faster than normal cells.Patients usually have several appointments over a period of several months Side effects include nausea, vomiting, tiredness, and general weakness
Radiation therapy
Surgery involves removing not only the malignant organ or tissues, but also adjacent healthy tissue. Common side effects and reactions include a feeling of violation of the body, disfigurement, disability or loss of bodily function.
Surgery
temporary disappearance of cancer
Remission
potential to be lethal
Malignant
clusters of lymphocytes through which the tissue fluids drain upon returning to the blood circulation
Lymph Nodes
cancer of the blood cells
Leukemia
blue appearance of the skin, lips, or fingernails as result of low oxygen content of circulating blood
Cyanotic
removal of a small portion of tissue for a diagnosis
Biposy
diseased cells travel in the blood or lymphatic system
What is Metastasis
invading adjacent tissues or metastasis
How do cancerous cells reproduce?
support or hope
What can doctors provide for their dying patients?
positive well being making new ones attainable
Explain each of the coping strategies in coping with a terminal illness: meaning focused
managing. info about diagnosis
Explain each of the coping strategies in coping with a terminal illness:Problem-focused
escaping the impact by reframing
Explain each of the coping strategies in coping with a terminal illness:Emotion-focused
Hope changes over time
Explain how hope changes during a terminal illness.
Denial: Avoiding the topic or facing the diagnosis Anger: Masking the anxiety about the encounter with serious illness and its meaning. Bargaining: Attempting to strike a deal with god with fate Depression: A feeling of profound loss Acceptance: Facing one’s mortality in a manner that is essentially positive
Explain how a person may experience each of Elisabeth Kubler Ross' stages of loss in response to a terminal illness.Make sure you list and explain all five stages.
acknowledged
Explain the different levels of awareness in dying people: Open
Participants avoid communication
Explain the different levels of awareness in dying people: Mutual Pretense
suspects, but not verified
Explain the different levels of awareness in dying people: Suspected
not aware
Explain the different levels of awareness in dying people: Closed
would've could've should've
How is magical thinking used by a person who has cancer?
self blame
Death causation guilt
Not enough while they were ill
Illness related guilt
not grieving right
Grief guilt
911
Survivor guilt
guilt about moving on
Moving on guilt
Not good enough
Role guilt
Educate, write letter, ask what it would take to forgive self, best friend approach and chat with dead
What to do if you feel guilt
Non profit, cheap funerals.
People's memorial association
single, side by side, double decker
Types of plots
Dig hole, casket, dirt top
Opening and closing
fountain, view, sculpture
Feature
Concrete box around coffin
Liner
Steel reinforced box
Vault
Set aside money where interest upkeeps cemetery
Endowment care
Music, religious, life video, cremation, videotaping, donation, viewing, hearse
Decisions in a funeral
Temp around 2,000, bones are left, can't litter, cremation takes place in cremetory, oven is called retort, illegal in WA up until 1980 to scatter
Cremation facts
Wooden, steel gasketed, cloth covered and precious metal
Types of caskets
Touch, reources, say name, share story, check on them, remmeber important dates. APTBIP= allow person to be in pain
Help a person in grief
Talk to dead, touch, write letter, prayers, wash body, hair, visit body
What to do after someone dies
Sleeps more, less social, changes in breathing, death rattle, heart rate, blood pressure
Signs of dying
No standing tombstones
Memorial park
Building shelves in wall
Mausoleum
Crypts
Mausoleum shelves
Wall with small shelves that contain urns
Columnbariums
Niches
Shelves in columnbarium
Own mauseoleum
Private estate
Does creamtion, and take it to sea
Neptune society
Freeze body when they can bring it back
Cryonics
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