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Thanatology involves |
| | A) | the right to die |
| | B) | clinical death |
| | C) | life after death |
| | D) | the study of death |
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Life-extending technologies have compelled courts and legislatures to accept a standard for death--one that is agreed upon by the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, and Presidential Commission, death is when |
| | A) | a person is unable to breathe independently |
| | B) | a person's entire brain doesn't register activity, including the brain stem |
| | C) | a person's primitive reflexes cease |
| | D) | a person's heart stops functioning |
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Which of the following attitudes is the most rare attitude towards death? |
| | A) | Death is a form of punishment. |
| | B) | Death is simply the "end" of being. |
| | C) | Death is the end of bodily life and a transition into a new life. |
| | D) | In death, one will be reunited with loved ones who have passed on. |
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The death-drop phenomenon refers to |
| | A) | the systematic psychological changes that occur before death |
| | B) | intense guilt, despair, and depression that occur when one is told that death is near |
| | C) | the otherworldly experiences reported by those who are resuscitated after clinical death |
| | D) | the higher rates of death that follow significant life changes |
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According to your text, which of the following statements is the least accurate conclusion about how modern American society regards death? |
| | A) | Nursing homes and hospitals take care of the terminally ill and manage the "crisis" of dying. |
| | B) | A mortuary establishment, in contrast to the deceased's family, prepares the body and handles funeral arrangements. |
| | C) | The average person has increased exposure to death through the media and has become "numb" to death. |
| | D) | The dying are to be segregated from others and are managed in an impersonal way. |
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According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a thanatologist and leading advocate for restoring dignity to dying, typically a terminally ill person's first response to impending death is |
| | A) | anger |
| | B) | depression |
| | C) | bargaining |
| | D) | denial |
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Kübler-Ross distinguishes five stages of a process through which dying people typically pass. In the middle phase, dying individuals try to arrange a truce with the illness in order to prolong their lives ("If only I can live through our family gathering at Christmas, I'll be ready to go."), and Kübler-Ross calls this the stage of |
| | A) | anger |
| | B) | acceptance |
| | C) | depression |
| | D) | bargaining |
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Dying people often mourn their own deaths, the loss of all the people and things they have found meaningful, and the plans and dreams that will never be fulfilled. Kübler-Ross calls this |
| | A) | death drop |
| | B) | denial |
| | C) | preparatory grief |
| | D) | life review |
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Most people who are aware of their impending death desire to die where? |
| | A) | in the hospital, where all their needs can be met |
| | B) | at a nursing home setting, where people understand the needs of a dying person |
| | C) | at home, among loved ones, and in familiar surroundings |
| | D) | away from most people so they can die quietly |
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Kastenbaum's criticism of Kübler-Ross's stage theory of death includes all of the following except |
| | A) | the specific nature of each disease (pain, mobility, duration, etc.) |
| | B) | differences in dying experienced by women and men |
| | C) | ethnic group membership (perspective on death) |
| | D) | the lack of recognition that people go through a "preparatory grief" time |
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The death awareness movement asserts that |
| | A) | life must be prolonged at all costs |
| | B) | a basic human right is the power to control one's own dying process |
| | C) | "aggressive" medical care should be used to prolong a dying person's life |
| | D) | dying individuals never come to accept death |
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"Any clinical circumstance in which the doctor and consultants conclude that further treatment cannot, within a reasonable possibility, cure, palliate, ameliorate, or restore a quality of life that would be satisfactory to the patient" describes |
| | A) | futile care |
| | B) | mercy killing |
| | C) | the right to die |
| | D) | a living will decree |
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Because of a Supreme Court ruling that states when a permanently unconscious person has left no clear instructions, a state is free to carry out its interest in the protection and preservation of human life, more people are preparing a legal document recognized in most states that describes one's wishes regarding life-sustaining technology and treatment when one is dying. What is this document? |
| | A) | writ of life |
| | B) | living will |
| | C) | living care proxy |
| | D) | health care proxy |
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Concerning terminally ill or critically ill patients (including newborns), the AMA states |
| | A) | physicians may help patients end their own lives through assisted suicide |
| | B) | physicians and nurses may help the critically ill with "mercy killing" |
| | C) | physicians can withhold all means of life-prolonging medical treatment, including food and water, from patients in irreversible comas even if death is not imminent |
| | D) | physicians are to ignore DNR (do not resuscitate) orders from the patient and family and are to use their own best judgment in each case |
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Another term for "mercy killing" is |
| | A) | thanatology |
| | B) | euthanasia |
| | C) | senility |
| | D) | convalescence |
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Which of the following findings about AIDS is not correct? |
| | A) | Efforts to devise a vaccine or treatment have been complicated by the fact that AIDS is caused by dozens of strains of the virus. |
| | B) | Behavioral remedies are the only methods available right now for prevention. |
| | C) | When considering random sex, each person is connected to the other person's sexual partners from the past ten years. |
| | D) | Abstinence is the only way to prevent AIDS. |
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Which of the following is a concern about "healthy dying" from the physician's perspective? |
| | A) | Depressed patients or those in severe pain have severely distorted thinking. |
| | B) | Sometimes patients at the brink of death actually recover. |
| | C) | There is a potential for abuse if physician-assisted suicide is legal. |
| | D) | All of the above. |
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Most hospice programs center upon |
| | A) | attempts to prolong the life of the dying person |
| | B) | developing cures for terminal illness |
| | C) | "comfort care" at home rather than attempts to prolong life |
| | D) | new experimental procedures designed to combat genetic disorders |
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Which of the following is not likely to be reported by individuals with near-death experience (NDE)? |
| | A) | passing through a tunnel in a "spiritual" way and entering into an unearthly realm |
| | B) | seeing deceased loved ones and a being of light, believed to be God |
| | C) | intense feelings of joy and peace that change the person's life upon returning |
| | D) | a desire to return to this earthly life to tell others about their other-worldly experience |
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Bereavement is best defined as a(n) |
| | A) | socially established manner of displaying signs of sorrow over a person's death |
| | B) | state in which a person has been deprived of a relative or friend by death |
| | C) | study of death |
| | D) | individual's right to choose a death with dignity |
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Grief work involves |
| | A) | mourning, talking about, and acknowledging the loss of a loved one |
| | B) | heroic measures designed to prolong the life of a terminally ill patient |
| | C) | placing a dying individual in a facility outside the home |
| | D) | the reconstruction of a new life pattern after the death of a loved one |
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Typically, for many people, the culmination phase of adult bereavement is |
| | A) | anger, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, weight loss, preoccupation with image of the deceased |
| | B) | shock, denial, disbelief |
| | C) | assumption of new roles, a sense of self-reliance, strength, new friends |
| | D) | adjustment to the new circumstances; reconnection to friends and family |
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Which of the following is the most accurate conclusion concerning people's bereavement behavior? |
| | A) | People's reactions can be easily identified in well-defined stages. |
| | B) | It is normal for the intensity and duration of symptoms of loss to vary from individual to individual. |
| | C) | Nearly all survivors experience deep shock, loss, and denial. |
| | D) | Two percent of survivors do not experience great distress. |
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Which of the following is the least accurate finding about widows and widowers? |
| | A) | Among those over 75, two-thirds of men are living with a spouse, while less than one-fifth of women are living with a spouse. |
| | B) | The life expectancy of women tends to be seven years longer than that of men. |
| | C) | The death rate of widowers is seven times that of married men of comparable age. |
| | D) | Health status remains about the same after the death of a spouse. |
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Concerning remarriage of widows and widowers, which is most accurate? |
| | A) | After age 65, women remarry at a rate of nine brides to every bridegroom. |
| | B) | Healthy widowers remarry relatively rapidly. |
| | C) | Many widowers, compared to widows, have the financial resources to care for themselves (cooking, cleaning, laundry, health care, etc.). |
| | D) | Women in the United States seem to have a more difficult time living alone than men. |
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