Exam 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement

Whenever Abe sees the beach, he's reminded of his deceased spouse and feels very upset. This represents which of Muller and Thompson's (2003) themes of grief?

Making one's choices known about how one want one's life to end constitutes one's:

Most grieving individuals get "back to normal" within about six months.

A person in a persistent vegetative state would be:

Bereavement is BEST thought of as the state or condition caused by loss through death.

The "terminal phase" of the death trajectory is sometimes used to determine eligibility for services like hospice care.

A.J. (age 8), Meadow (age 16), and Tony (age 28) are all children of the Soprano family. Each of them is about to experience a loss as the result of the death of their mother, Sally. Describe the similarities and differences that you would expect concerning the reactions of these individuals to their loss.

Which does NOT belong on a list of symptoms of traumatic distress?

Who is "sanctifying" their deceased husband?

Nathan wants to be sure that, in the event he is incapable of communicating, no life support will be used even if doctors want to keep him alive. He also wants to give his wife the legal right to speak for him in that situation. In order to do all this with one document, Nathan should complete a(n):

As a hospice staff member, you would be LEAST likely to hear your supervisor say:

The comment, "She died unexpectedly and way before her time," is best associated with Bonanno and Kaltman's (1999) ____ component of grief.

A situation of loss in which there is no resolution or closure is known as:

What is the role of a death doula? How does the hospice approach to terminal care facilitate the role of a death doula?

Dr. Kelly has just purposely killed a patient by injecting her with a lethal amount of medication. This patient had an incurable illness and requested to die rather than go through a long, painful treatment. This is an example of:

When compared to terminally-ill hospital patients, hospice patients are more likely to be:

According to research presented in your text, understanding how adults deal with death is probably best understood from the perspective of ____ theory.

Four-year-old Gwen and eight-year-old Stefani are coming back from their grandfather's funeral. Which of them understands that eventually everyone has to die?

Mourning rituals and states of bereavement are pretty much the same across all cultures.

Dr. Axle teaches bioethics. What lecture title would be MOST representative of his field?