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| can be identified by others and can arise either in response to or in anticipation of a situation |
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| Advance health care directive |
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| a variety of legal and lay documents that allow persons to specify aspects of care they wish to receive should they become unable to make or communicate their preferences |
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| the gradual decrease of the body's temperature after death |
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| grief experienced in advance of the event |
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| the experience of loss before the loss actually occurs |
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| an examination of the body after death to determine the cause of death and to learn more about a disease process |
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| a subjective response of a person who has experienced the loss of a significant other through death |
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| the cessation of heart function |
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| the higher brain center or cerebral cortex is irreversibly destroyed |
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| a type of awareness in which the client is unaware of impending death |
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| a public official, not necessarily a physician, appointed or elected to inquire into the causes of death |
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| Do-not-resuscitate order (DNR) |
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| a physician's order that specifies no effort be made to resuscitate the client with terminal or irreversible illness in the event of a respiratory or cardiac arrest. |
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| the state in which an individual or group experiences prolonged, unresolved grief and engages in detrimental activities |
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| care provided in the final weeks before death |
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| the act of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable or distressing disease |
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| emotional suffering often caused by bereavement |
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| a legal statement that appoints a proxy to make medical decisions for the client in the event the client is unable to do so |
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| the traditional clinical signs of death: cessation of the apical pulse, respirations, and blood pressure |
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| the delivery of care for terminally ill clients either in health care facilities or in the client's home |
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| a document that states medical treatments(s) the client chooses to omit or refuse in the event that the client is unable to make these decisions |
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| discoloration of the skin caused by break down of the red blood cells; occurs after blood circulation has ceased; appears in the dependent areas of the body |
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| an actual or potential situation in which a valued ability, object, or person is inaccessible or changed so that it is perceived as no longer valuable |
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| a physician who usually has advanced education in pathology or forensic medicine who determines causes of death |
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| a person trained in the care of the dead; also called an undertake |
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| the process through which grief is eventually resolved or altered |
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| a type of awareness in which the client, family, and health personnel know that the prognosis is terminal but do not talk about it and make an effort not to raise the subject |
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| a type of awareness in which the client and people around know about the impending death |
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| symptom care of clients for whom disease no longer responds to cure-focused treatment |
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| the loss experienced by a person that cannot be verified by others |
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| the stiffening of the body that occurs after death |
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| a large piece of plastic or cotton material used to enclose a body after death |
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