Chapter Questions
What are the various sociocultural meanings for death?
What are the three legal criteria for death?
What are the criteria necessary for brain death?
What is bioethics and what kinds of issues does it deal with?
What are the two types of euthanasia? How do they differ?
What are the costs, both financial and psychological, of keeping someone on life support?
Who is most likely to commit suicide? What are some reasons why people commit suicide?
What is death anxiety? What factors influence death anxiety?
How do people demonstrate death anxiety?
How do people learn to deal with death anxiety?
Describe Kübler-Ross's stage theory of dying. How do people progress through the stages?
Describe the phase theory of dying. What is a dying trajectory?
What is necessary for creating a contextual theory of dying?
How is age related to dying?
Where do most people want to die? Where do they actually die?
What is a hospice? How does hospice care differ from hospital care?
What is it like to work with dying people?
What needs do dying people have?
How do physicians and other health care workers deal with dying people?
How do mental health workers deal with dying people?
What effects does an expected versus an unexpected death have on the grieving process?
What are the stages of grief? How long does grief usually last?
What are the differences between normal and abnormal grief reactions? What age differences are there in grief reactions?
How does the type of loss affect grief?
What is the near-death experience?