Question 1

What conclusions do you think are reasonable ones to draw from research on the link between survival rates and personality or response to the disease? Cite specific research in support of your position where possible. What additional research would you suggest we need in order to clarify the results in this area?

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Question 2

When people learn that a friend is dying, they sometimes stay away because they don't know what to do or to say. How can this decision be harmful? What are some helpful things they can do and say?

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Question 3

Create two fictitious individuals who are experiencing the death of a loved one, each from distinctly different cultural backgrounds. Explain the mourning and burial rituals and relate these to one of the predominant grief and bereavement theories. Which individual and which individual's loved ones do you believe experience the greatest fulfillment in death, if either? Explain your answer.

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Question 4

Evaluate the following assertion: "Adults who have achieved a great deal of worldly success are likely to be more afraid of death than are those who have been less successful, since they are more afraid of losing what they have achieved."

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Question 5

Compare the stages of dying proposed by Kübler-Ross and the stages of grieving proposed by Bowlby. To what extent do you think this sequence is a basic response to loss of any kind?

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Question 6

Describe how your family experiences [or may experience] the death of a loved one. Explain your family's mourning and funeral traditions, include the specific mourning and burial rituals and relate these to one of the predominant grief and bereavement theories

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Question 7

Describe the evidence suggesting that high levels of social support are linked to better prognoses or longer survival times for those with serious disease.

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Question 8

Describe briefly the major features of hospice care. If your parent or your spouse were dying, would you consider such a program of care as an alternative to hospital care? Why or why not?

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Question 9

Describe the major functions of funerals and other rituals surrounding death.

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Quiz 11: Death and Bereavement