Deck 26: Seciton 4: Epilogue

Question 1

In contemporary society, many traditional religious mourning practices have been replaced by secular memorial services.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

As adults become parents, they take fewer risks and more precautions.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Physician-assisted suicide is used in about 25 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A good death is often considered to be one that is quick, peaceful, and in the presence of family and friends.

Question 5

Medical directives in living wills are always followed by hospital staff.

Question 6

Fear of death tends to subside in middle age.

Question 7

A divorced spouse may feel disenfranchised grief after the death of their former partner.

Question 8

Passive euthanasia is legal everywhere.

Question 9

The double effect is considered unethical and is illegal in most states.

Question 10

Physician-assisted suicide is legal in most U.S. states.

Question 11

An advance directive is an individual's instructions regarding end-of-life medical care.

Question 12

Only those with pathological grief seek to assign blame after the death of a loved one.

Question 13

According to Kübler-Ross, the final stage of dying is depression.

Question 14

Death occurs earlier today than it did 100 years ago.

Question 15

Hospice care makes use of a variety of medical interventions to delay death.

Question 16

Some pain medication can speed up death.

Question 17

Incomplete grief may result when a police investigation or autopsy follows a death.

Question 18

Children do not understand death.

Question 19

One function of mourning customs is to allow for public displays of grief.

Question 20

Robert barely survived a horrendous car crash. As he lay on the road close to death, he said he was surrounded by a white light and felt joy and peace. He was experiencing palliative care.

Question 21

Childhood experiences can shape how adults deal with the death of loved ones later in life.

Question 22

Only a small subset of people-about 10 percent-experience complicated grief.

Question 23

Mourning can sometimes take the form of public protest, turning blame into what can be a constructive action to make the world safer.

Question 24

If individuals do not move on quickly after grieving the loss of a loved one, pathological incomplete grief will result.