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Death and Dying

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Functional Death   The absence of a heartbeat and breathing  
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Brain Death   A diagnosis of death based on the cessation of all signs of brain activity, as measured by electrical brain waves.  
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)   The unexplained death of a seemingly health baby  
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Thanatologists   People who study death and dying  
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Kubler-Ross 5 Steps toward death   Denial (shock), Anger (emotion), Bargaining, Depression (reactive or preparatory), and Acceptance.  
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Preparatory Depression:   People feel sadness over future losses. Example: end to relationships with others, and not able to see future generations  
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Reactive Depression:   The feelings of sadness are based on events that have already occurred. Example: the loss of dignity that may accompany medical procedures, the end of a job, or the knowledge that one will never return from the hospital to one's home.  
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Living Will   A legal document designating what medical treatments people want or do not want if they cannot express their wishes (including DNR)  
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Euthanasia   The practice of assisting people who are terminally ill to die more quickly  
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Home Care   An alternative to hospitalization in which dying people stay in their homes and receive treatment from their families and visiting medical staff.  
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Hospice Care   Care provided for the dying in institutions devoted to those who are terminally ill.  
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Bereavement   Acknowledgement of the objective fact that one has experienced a death.  
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Grief   The emotional response to one's loss. Entails shock, numbness, disbelief, or outright denial and may continue on with regular routines.  
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Prolonged Grief Disorder   A type of mourning that continues unceasingly for months and years.  
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Some studies find that the risk of death is as much as __ times higher than normal in the first year after the death of a spouse.   SEVEN  
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Who have the highest suicide rates?   White males over 85  
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SIDS common age   2-4 months  
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Most frequent cause of death in childhood/adolescents   Accidents  
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Adolescents view of death is?   Unrealistic and highly romanticized  
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Criticism of Kubler-Ross   Not applicable to a groups of people or situations, because they may go through steps in different order or ways.  
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Assisted Suicide   When a person provides means for a patient to commit suicide- Dr. Kavorkian  
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Voluntary and Passive Euthanasia   Patient asks that no extraordinary care be given  
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Voluntary and Active Euthanasia   Patient asks to be helped to die (mercy killing?)  
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Involuntary and Passive Euthanasia   An adult other than the patient requests that no extraordinary treatment be given  
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Involuntary and Active    
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