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| the academic, and often scientific, study of death among human beings. It investigates the circumstances surrounding a person's death, the grief experienced by the deceased's loved ones, and larger social attitudes towards death such as ritual and memorialization. |
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| the maximum length of life for individuals or the biological limit on length of life in a species |
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| includes enounters with death, attitudes towards death, and death related practices |
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| an estimate of the average number of years a group of people will live |
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| chronic condition caused by the long term wearing out of body organs, a deterioration associated with aging, lifestyle, and environment |
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| Four Leading Causes of Death in the US |
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1. diseases of the heart
2. cancers
3.cerebrovascular diseases
4. chronic lower respiratory diseases |
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| different patters of death associated with different causes |
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| duration (of dying trajectory) |
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| refers to the time involved between the onset of dying and the arrival of death |
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| 3 Phases of a dying trajectory |
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1. Acute Crisis Phase
2. Chronic Living Dying Phase
3. Terminal phase |
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| often involves rising anxiety generated by the critical awareness of impending death |
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| Chronic-Living-Dying-Phase |
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| 2nd phase of dying trajectory. may contain a variety of potential fears and challenges |
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| likely to emphasize issues concerning hope and concerns about different types of death |
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| Shape of Dying Trajectory |
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| designates the course of the dyiung process, whether one can predict how that process will advance, and whether death is expected or unexpected |
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| 6 Factors Related to Changing Enounters wih Death |
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1.Inustrialization
2.Public Heath Measures
3. Preventative Health Care for Individuals
4.Rise of Modern Cure-Oriented Medicine
5.Nature of Contemporary Families
6. Lifestyle |
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| studied the physiological stress responses (ex. stomach ulsurs, thamus response, adrenal glands |
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| Steps of General Adaptation |
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1. Alarm
2. Resistance
3. Adaptation
4. Death |
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Informal
Formal
Teachable Moment |
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| Dimensions of Death Education |
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Cognitive
Affective
Behavioral
Valucational |
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| Themes in Death Education |
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- limitaqtion and control
- individual and community
- vulnerability and resilience
- quality of life |
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| How Do We Know We Are Dying |
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- verbal communication
- changes in the behavior of others
- changes in medical care procedures
- changes in physical placement
- self awareness |
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- Certain death at known time
- Unknown death at known time
- Certain death at unknown time
- Uncertain death at uncertain time |
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- Social Death
- Psychological Death
- Biological Death
- Physiological Death |
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1. Closed Awareness - one party aware, others not
2. Suspected Awareness - everyone but dying knows, dying just suspects
3. Mutual Pretense - everyone aware, but pretends nothing is wrong
4. Open Awareness - everyone knows about dying, talk openly |
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| Death is familiar and simple. Up until 11th Century. Simple community service. Death is natural and accaptable. |
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| Focus on the person dying. 12-16th Century. Influenced byt the 15th Century Black Plaugue, when 1/4 of population died. Afterlife started to be feared because of punishment. Start of avoidance of elderly because they were more susceptable to sickness and thus, death. Rituals to ensure salvation after death became cultural norms in many religions. |
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| 16th - 18th Centuries. less fear of after-death judgement. Marked by ambivalent attitude towards death: natural event (not spiritual) that is kept at a distance. |
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| 18-19th Century. Focused on survivors and their unbearable feelings of separation from loved ones. Death becoming untamed - people began to think communication with the dead was possible. |
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| Death Denied (or Dead Forbidden) |
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| 19th-20th Century. Culture started to deny death. Dead made to look alive. |
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