Question 1

What is the definition of the terms
-Appropriate death

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-Appropriate...

Question 2

The number of people with AIDS in India, now at four million, is estimated to increase to ______ million within the next few years.

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A)  8 
B)  10 
C)  25 
D)  15

Question 3

When put in historical context, fewer people today view death as a release from a burdensome life.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Discuss the palliative approach to a good death and how it relates to "quality of care."

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Question 5

Statistics from the Netherlands (fairly comparable with those of the United States) indicate that roughly only ______ can have much control over the way he or she dies.

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A)  one in four people 
B)  two out of five people 
C)  one in three people 
D)  one-half of people

Question 6

Explain Kastenbaum's notion of what death would be like in Utopia.

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Question 7

Religion was eliminated in Utopia to reduce the bloodshed that potentially would rise from intergroup differences.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Byock's account of his father's final illness makes all the following points, EXCEPT:

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A)  elderly people should not be put on life-support systems 
B)  death can be experienced as relief and release 
C)  there may still be positive experiences after a life-threatening crisis 
D)  physicians who manage terminal care effectively can still be shook up by deaths in their own family.

Question 9

Kastenbaum's Proposition 5 is identical to Weisman's (1972) concept for a good death: the death a person would choose for himself or herself.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In the nineteenth century, how a person died was crucial to determining how well he or she had lived and what the afterlife would hold.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Which of the following have been identified as an example of "the good death"?

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A)  Our most significant personal relationships are affirmed. 
B)  The highest values of society are affirmed and enacted. 
C)  A transfiguring personal experience occurs. 
D)  All of the above.

Question 12

Summarize Kastenbaum's review of the history of communication and explain his concerns regarding virtual reality and computer technology.

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Question 13

An assumption that people everywhere would fear a death marked by extreme physical, mental, and spiritual suffering is a consideration of:

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A)  Proposition 1 
B)  Proposition 2 
C)  Proposition 3 
D)  Proposition 4.

Question 14

All of the following are frames of mind that can be associated with the good death as a transfiguring experience EXCEPT a:

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A)  sense of adventure 
B)  sense of mystical awareness 
C)  need to avoid the stressful realities of dying and separation 
D)  need to avoid spiritual manifestations afflicting one's life.

Question 15

The terrorist tragedy of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers on September 11, 2001 sent out the following message about death:

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A)  that dying instantly was a form of the "good" death 
B)  that death under such horrific conditions left no time for pain before actual death, which meant it was a good way to die 
C)  that death through terrorist actions would lead to martyrdom 
D)  that individuality or the individual meant nothing.

Question 16

Socrates' response to the order of execution historically is considered a good death that flowed from a good life.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

According to Kastenbaum's Proposition 3, the good death is when dying individuals can have all the people from their lives affirm those relationships by spending the remaining time with them.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Socrates could have escaped execution but he chose not to.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

For Weisman, the appropriate death is one that:

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A)  society considers most acceptable 
B)  would be the death that we would choose for ourselves if we really had a choice 
C)  is most likely to earn salvation 
D)  involves slipping away without awareness.

Question 20

Populations that exceeded carrying capacities have been suspected as the cause for most of the mass-extinction episodes.

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A) True 
 B)False

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

What is the definition of the terms -Appropriate death

The number of people with AIDS in India, now at four million, is estimated to increase to ______ million within the next few years.

When put in historical context, fewer people today view death as a release from a burdensome life.

Discuss the palliative approach to a good death and how it relates to "quality of care."

Statistics from the Netherlands (fairly comparable with those of the United States) indicate that roughly only ______ can have much control over the way he or she dies.

Explain Kastenbaum's notion of what death would be like in Utopia.

Religion was eliminated in Utopia to reduce the bloodshed that potentially would rise from intergroup differences.

Byock's account of his father's final illness makes all the following points, EXCEPT:

Kastenbaum's Proposition 5 is identical to Weisman's (1972) concept for a good death: the death a person would choose for himself or herself.

In the nineteenth century, how a person died was crucial to determining how well he or she had lived and what the afterlife would hold.

Which of the following have been identified as an example of "the good death"?

Summarize Kastenbaum's review of the history of communication and explain his concerns regarding virtual reality and computer technology.

An assumption that people everywhere would fear a death marked by extreme physical, mental, and spiritual suffering is a consideration of:

All of the following are frames of mind that can be associated with the good death as a transfiguring experience EXCEPT a:

The terrorist tragedy of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers on September 11, 2001 sent out the following message about death:

Socrates' response to the order of execution historically is considered a good death that flowed from a good life.

According to Kastenbaum's Proposition 3, the good death is when dying individuals can have all the people from their lives affirm those relationships by spending the remaining time with them.

Socrates could have escaped execution but he chose not to.

For Weisman, the appropriate death is one that:

Populations that exceeded carrying capacities have been suspected as the cause for most of the mass-extinction episodes.