Exam 15: Good Life, Good Death Trying to Make Sense of It All

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Explain the relationship between Thanatos and Eros as depicted by Sigmund Freud.

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The ancient "death as enfeebled life" model implied that:

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Describe the way Ira Byock, M.D., founder of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, was stunned, moved, and instructed by the death of his father to be an advocate for improved terminal care or a "good death."

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Oppositional death occurs when one died in battle, fighting the opposition.

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Often AIDS patients endure a social death or ostracism along with a physical death.

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What are the seven positives that are best expressed through a list of negatives regarding the concept of Utopia?

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One characteristic of Utopia is "no vice," which means individuals can sensually indulge in earthly delights.

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Dutch scholar Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg (2005) confirms that often we have the opportunity to shape the end of our lives as we might choose.

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Which of the following does NOT represent one of Kastenbaum's suggestions for individuals when contemplating a good life or good death?

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The ability to shift time by means of virtual reality is an important challenge to life- and death-related circumstances.

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In Utopia, a suicide is an acceptable form of good death as long as it is approved by the priests and the senate.

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Which of the following is NOT part of John Donne's Devotion 17?

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According to Kastenbaum's Proposition 1, a good death cannot be achieved because there is no value in death.

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The palliative approach to a good death is still far from a universal practice.

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Mass extinctions have occurred at least three times in the distant past.

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Throughout world history, people often feared growing old because of possible:

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List Kastenbaum's five propositions regarding a "good death."

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______ observations led him to the conclusion that life forms are related to each other in a complex web of circumstances.

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In Utopia, death is good when pleasure is gone and one can no longer be of use to others.

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A good death in Utopia occurs:

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