Exam 18: The End of the Lifespan: Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Nutshell

More than ______________ percent of Indigenous Australian men die before their 65th birthday, as compared to only ______________ percent of other Australian men.

In 2008, infant deaths accounted for 6 percent of total ______________ deaths, compared with only 0.8 percent of total deaths for the rest of the population.

Monozygotic twin pairs are less similar to one another than are dizygotic co- twins in their average length of life.

In elderly adults' descriptions of the most distasteful aspect of death, the most common response (23 percent) was that 'The process of dying might be painful'.

Children are found to have a preliminary understanding of death from at least 18 months of age (Speece and Brent, 1984).

Between the ages of three and five years, a child's concept of death is influenced by preoperational ______________ and magical or wishful thinking.

A man of 60 whose wife is under 45 runs only half the mortality risk of a 60- year- old with similar health and income, who is married to a woman of exactly his own age (Foster, Klinger- Vartabedian and Wispe, 1984).

Speece and Brent (1984) concluded that healthy children gain an awareness of the irreversibility, non- functionality and universality of death between the ages of ______________ and ______________ .

Which of the following is not true of the bargaining stage of the process of dying?

Aboriginal infant mortality has dramatically reduced over the past 50 years but remains higher than for Anglo- Australians.

In Australia and New Zealand, if the population trends continue as they presently are, there will be a large increase in the demand for professionals to work with the ______________.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated that life expectancy at birth for Indigenous Australians is 17 years less (for both sexes) than non- Indigenous life expectancy (ABS, 2008).

A large proportion of children under the age of seven believe that dead people can perform ______________ activities.

In Japan, it is estimated that a girl born in 2001 has roughly a ______________ percent chance of living to the age of 100 (Smelser and Baltes, 2001).

Even with the inclusion of religious answers, Brent and Speece (1993) discovered that beliefs in the reversibility of death were more pronounced among adults than among school- age children.

According to Shanis (1985), the dying person's chance to make effective use of the final period in life depends on three things. Which of the following is not suggested by Shanis?

Alexander and Lester (1972) found that enthusiasts for the death- defying sport of parachute jumping earn ______________ scores on death anxiety measures as compared to their peers who prefer more cautious recreational pursuits like gardening or lawn bowls.

People throughout the industrialised world today live almost 1.5 times as long as people in 1840.

In most infra- human species the ______________ tends to outlive the ______________.

According to Job (1984), ______________ percent of elderly Australians could be classified as death postponers.