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| an estimate of the average number of years a group of people will live |
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| diseases that can be transmitted or spread from person to person |
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| medical science and health care primarily designed to cure, reverse the course, or halt/slow the advance of disease or other life threatening conditions. |
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| numbers of deaths among members of a given population group divided by the total number of those in the group; usually expressed as some number of deaths per 1,000 or 100,000 individuals. |
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| diseases that typically result from long-term wearing out of body organs, typically associated with aging, lifestyle, and environment. |
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| patterns of dying or the ways in which dying plays out, typically distinguished by duration (the time between onset and death) and shape (the course of the dying) |
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| Encounters with death, dying, and bereavement |
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| ways in which we confront or meet up with death-related events. |
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| a large kinship group whose members often live near each other |
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| the organization of labor, especially manufacturing, into industries; often involving mechanization versus hand labor. |
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| The living-dying interval |
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| the period between the onset of dying and the arrival of death; described by Pattison as including an "acute crisis phase," a "chronic living-dying phase," and a "terminal phase." |
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| the physical place in which death occurs, for example, in a home or public place. |
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| medical and health care primarily designed to prevent or minimize the likelihood of acquiring disease or putting one's life at risk |
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| community actions to protect or improve the health of society's members |
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| literally, the "art of dying," a practice that focused on what one should do to die well |
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| concerns or worries related in some way to death |
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| a more or less settled way of being in the world, presenting oneself to the world, behaving, or acting that reflects some belief, opinion, or feeling related to death |
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| speech that employs language about death to describe or intensify talk about subjects that have nothing to do with death |
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| familiar routines, procedures, and actions that fallow from or are related to death-related encounters and actions |
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| the formal or informal structure that every society employs to mediate between death and its members; composed of specific elements designed to perform particular functions |
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| language that substitutes a word or expression that is thought to be less distasteful or offensive for one more exactly descriptive of what is intended |
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| unrealistic portraits of death |
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