Exam 17: Culture and Diversity

Ada knows that she has liver cancer and will not live much longer.In her prayers,she asks God to let her live one more year,and she will promise to set everything right with her family and loved ones.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross believed that this type of reaction to death tends to occur:

Most psychologists believe that it is best for dying individuals to:

Your text reported that active euthanasia is legal in:

The hospice was developed with the goal of:

An individual is MOST likely to die:

A person born in 1900 would most likely live until about age:

Which of the following statements about a living will is FALSE?

Jack Kevorkian,a Michigan physician,has assisted a number of terminally ill patients to end their lives.After given a series of trials,Dr.Kevorkian was:

The emotional numbness,disbelief,separation anxiety,despair,and sadness that accompanies the loss of someone a person loves.

Which of the following refers to the right of an individual to determine whether extraordinary means should be used to keep them alive?

Define euthanasia.Name and describe the two types of euthanasia.

Distinguish between the goals of a hospital and hospice care.

Defining death as nonfunction of the higher cortex implies that:

The ________ portions of the brain often die sooner than the ________ portions.

Approximately __________ of corpses are disposed of by cremation.

Studies of the diversity of grieving patterns within and between cultures indicate that:

Approximately __________ of survivors experience complicated grief reactions.

Death induced deliberately for a person (who is suffering from an incurable disease or severe disabilities)by injecting a lethal dose of a drug.

In the Gond culture of India,death is believed to be caused by:

If legal definitions of death were modified to mean death of the higher brain but not necessarily the lower brain,which of the following could become a legal practice?