Exam 17: Death, Dying, and Grieving

The key feature of a successful program that helps widows adjust to the deaths of their spouses is:

There are roughly ________ times more widows than widowers over the age of 85 years in the United States.

Allowing a person (who is suffering from an incurable disease or severe disabilities)to die by withholding available treatment such as turning off a respirator.

Your text reported that active euthanasia is legal in:

Germain has signed an advance directive.This means that:

A program committed to making the end of life as free from pain,anxiety,and depression as possible.

An emphasis in our culture on using all life-prolonging methods possible,even in the face of certain death,is a sign of our culture's:

In what ways can denial of death be a positive response?

List at least five suggestions for communicating with someone who is dying.

Josue has incurable cancer.However,he promises to lead a reformed life dedicated to God if God will spare his life.Josue is in which of Kübler-Ross' stages of dying?

Hospices are a relatively recent approach developed to:

Twenty-five years ago,definitions of death centered on:

An individual is most likely to die:

Recent scientific advances in the United States have led to more people:

Death occurs neurologically when ________ for a specified period of time.

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

Defining death as nonfunction of the higher cortex implies that:

Which two factors may work together as an adaptive strategy for some older adults who face death?

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross believed that when a person is dying,depression is:

Approximately __________ of survivors experience complicated grief reactions.