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The study of death and dying is called . |
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Efforts to make dying more human are evidenced by care, a warm, personal patient- and family-centered care for a person with a terminal illness, and care, which is aimed at relieving pain and suffering and allowing the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and dignity. |
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The five stages of grieving outlined by psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross are , , , , and . This model has been criticized in that and, if they do, they may not go through them . |
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refers to loss, due to death, of someone to whom a person feels close and the process of adjustment to the loss. Closely connected is , the emotional response experienced in the early phases of bereavement, which is helped through , the common pattern of working out the psychological issues connected with grief, in which the bereaved person accepts the loss, releases the bond with the deceased, and rebuilds a life without that person. |
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therapy is treatment to help a bereaved cope with loss. Clients are encouraged to their relationship with the deceased and to the fact of the death into their lives. |
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A major factor in dealing effectively with bereavement is , not . |
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The death of a parent can be a experience that pushes adults into resolving important developmental issues and achieving a stronger sense of . |
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The Japanese ritual of mizuko kuyo, a rite of apology and remembrance, is observed as a means of making amends to an life. |
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The term " " means "good death." euthanasia is deliberate action taken to shorten the life of a terminally ill person in order to end suffering or to allow death with dignity; euthanasia is the deliberate withholding or discontinuation of life-prolonging treatment for the same purposes; and is suicide in which a physician or someone else helps a person take his or her own life. |
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A mentally competent person's wishes about that person's wishes in the event of a terminal condition can be spelled out in advance in an or , which specifies the type of care wanted by the maker in the event of terminal illness. A is a legal instrument that appoints an individual to make decisions in the event of another person’s incapacitation. |
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Donations of kidneys or portions of a liver or lung by a living person have increased in recent years in the United States due to a donors, and to medical advances that make donation and more likely to . |
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Opponents of physician assisted suicide believe that it would inevitably lead to , and the next step on the "slippery slope" would be . |
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The aid-in-dying controversy has called attention to the need for better and closer attention to patients’ and . |
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, reminiscence about one's life in order to see its significance, can occur at any time in a person's life. |
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