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| state of total uncosciosness |
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| persistent vegietative state |
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-awake and yet unaware
-open eyes, brain show characteristic patterns of waking and asleep
-can breath, cough, pupils respond to light
-do not respond to pain |
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Term
--- million die in U.S. each year
-under 35, biggest cause of death----
-older americans, cause of death----
-men die ---- than women
-college individuals most likely to die --- |
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-24 million
-intentional and nonintentional injury
-cancer and heart disease
-men die younger than women
-accidents or assualts |
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| death broken down into cateogires |
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Definition
-functional death
-cellular death
-death
-brain death
-spiritial death |
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Definition
| -end of all vital functions |
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Definition
| gradual death of body cells after heart stops beating |
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Definition
| moment heart stops beating |
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Definition
| -end of all brain activity, indivated by abscense of electrical activity |
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| moment when soul leaves body |
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| 5 stages of reaction person goes through while facing death |
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Definition
-denial
-anger
-bargaining
-depression
-acceptance |
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| way person faces death... |
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Definition
| is much like person faces life--if hard to deal with stress in life, hard to deal with stress of death |
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| individuals will to live... |
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Definition
| can postpone death for a while |
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| people who are fataly or terminally ill... |
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Definition
| prefer to knw the truth about their health and chances for recovery |
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| things that play major roles in timing and quickness of death |
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Definition
-hope
-spirituality
-caregiving |
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Term
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Definition
| homelike health-care facility or program commited to supportive care for terminally ill people |
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Term
| individuals who have near death experiences report autoscopy....... and transcendence |
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Definition
-autoscopy: watching from several feet in air, attempts to enter own body
-transcendence: sense of passing into foreign region or dimension |
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Term
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Definition
-increased with age
-common in people over 65
-for ever completed one, there are 10-40 unsucessful attempts
-one of main factors--termanilly ill |
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Term
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Definition
-controversial topic on suicide for termanilly il
-could be suicidal thoughts because of undiagnosed depression |
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Term
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Definition
-active form of so-called mercy killing
-deemed unethical and wrong |
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Term
| average costs for funeral |
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Definition
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Definition
| type of autopsy performed to establish cause of death and gather information about death for use as evidence in any legal procedings |
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| type of autopsy performed in hospital where person died to increase medical knolwedge and determine more exact cause of death |
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Definition
| grief progresses from emotionally painful but normal experience to more persistent problem |
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