Exam 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement

________ issues involve topics pertaining to the management of the final phase of life, after-death disposition of the body and memorial services, and distribution of assets.

Muller and Thompson (2003) suggested that there are five different themes to people's experience of grief. They include all but which of the following?

________ care focuses on providing relief from pain and other symptoms at any point during the disease process.

Klaus is a physician who practices in the Netherlands. He has recently assisted a patient in committing suicide. According to a 1984 Dutch Supreme Court ruling, Klaus will not be prosecuted for this action if several different criteria are met. Which of the following is NOT one of those conditions?

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross changed the way we approach dying by proposing a seven-stage model of the grieving process.

Which of the following events causes people to redefine their relationships with siblings, children, and other family members?

According to Muller and Thompson (2003), the aspect of grief that involves who the deceased person was and the nature of the ties between that person and the survivor is

One of the most important, yet difficult, parts of creating a final scenario is

In the United States, all 50 states and the District of Columbia use the ________ standard to define death.

Today, the most widely accepted definition of death is ________ death.

Palliative care focuses on extending life at any cost, including the use of experimental treatments.

Of the following, which would be the best example of passive euthanasia?

Which of the following events is MOST LIKELY to inspire a person to consider their own mortality?

In one theory of grieving, it has been hypothesized that extensive grief processing is actually more harmful than helpful in recovering from a loss.

________ is an approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management and death with dignity as opposed to the prolongation of life.

________ is the set of emotions that people experience after the death of a loved one.

According to the research of Bonanno and colleagues (2005)

What has research found about the five stages of dying proposed by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross?

Which US state passed the first law legalizing physician-assisted suicide?

Your authors note that when an older adult experiences the death of a grandchild, they often respond by