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Which of the following is an aspect of death? |
| | A) | religious meanings of the end of life |
| | B) | biological cessation of bodily processes |
| | C) | all of these |
| | D) | cultural responses to dying. |
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The week-long Jewish ritual that allows mourners to vent their feelings and share memories of the deceased is called |
| | A) | mummification. |
| | B) | shiva. |
| | C) | thanatology. |
| | D) | an advance directive. |
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Over the course of the 20th century, there were dramatic improvements in the United States in treating people for diseases. As a result, death has come to be experienced differently from the way it was in earlier times. Which of the following is NOT a result of this change? |
| | A) | More people had the opportunity to witness their loved ones dying. |
| | B) | People began to see death as a failure of medical treatment, rather than a natural event. |
| | C) | Death increasingly became a phenomenon of late adulthood. |
| | D) | Death became invisible and abstract to many people. |
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Hospices focus on relieving pain and maintaining a patient's quality of life, practices known as _____ care. |
| | A) | denial |
| | B) | palliative |
| | C) | preventative |
| | D) | euthanasia |
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In some cases, people who are nearing the end of life lose cognitive and other functions as part of a process known as |
| | A) | a living will. |
| | B) | a terminal drop. |
| | C) | the thanatological descent. |
| | D) | assisted suicide. |
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The stage of dying proposed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in which people often think, "Oh no, this can't be happening to me," is |
| | A) | denial. |
| | B) | acceptance. |
| | C) | bargaining. |
| | D) | anger. |
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One problem that researchers have found with the classic model of grief work is that |
| | A) | there is a single pattern of grief that can be described as universal among the bereaved. |
| | B) | people cannot always resolve their grief. |
| | C) | everyone experiences shock and depression. |
| | D) | grief work is beneficial to all bereaved people. |
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The Changing Lives of Older Couples study found that the most common reaction to the death of a spouse was a pattern of |
| | A) | grief absence. |
| | B) | delayed grief. |
| | C) | resilience. |
| | D) | shock and disbelief. |
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Around the ages of 5 to 7 years, children generally learn that death is |
| | A) | vegetative and nonfunctional. |
| | B) | irreversible and inevitable. |
| | C) | abstract and invisible. |
| | D) | temporary and escapable. |
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One to five years after their parents died, a majority of the adults in one research study said that they still experienced |
| | A) | financial hardships from funeral costs. |
| | B) | the sensation that the parent was still alive. |
| | C) | a newfound sense of freedom. |
| | D) | emotional distress. |
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The Japanese have a word, mizuko, but in English there is no term for |
| | A) | the weeklong ritual of venting feelings after a loved one dies. |
| | B) | assisting in another person's death. |
| | C) | a miscarried or aborted fetus. |
| | D) | a persistent vegetative state. |
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In the United States, suicide rates are higher among _____ than for _____. |
| | A) | children; elderly people |
| | B) | men; women |
| | C) | women; men |
| | D) | married men; divorced and widowed men |
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One of the medical arguments AGAINST assisted suicide is that |
| | A) | doctors are obligated to relieve suffering at all costs. |
| | B) | there is a possibility of misdiagnosis; the person's disease might not be fatal after all. |
| | C) | patients are the ones who actually take the steps to end their lives. |
| | D) | there is virtually no chance of new medical breakthroughs that would help most patients. |
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Terry has agreed to let doctors remove the feeding tubes and other life support systems from her terminally ill partner, Pat. Terry has made the decision to commit |
| | A) | mummification. |
| | B) | assisted suicide. |
| | C) | active euthanasia. |
| | D) | passive euthanasia. |
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A life review is a process of |
| | A) | reminiscence in order to determine the significance of one's life. |
| | B) | examining one's strategic moves in a popular board game. |
| | C) | critiquing a pictorial magazine. |
| | D) | comparison taste-testing breakfast cereals. |
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