Deck 19: Lifes Final Chapter

Question 1

The last stage in Kiibler-Ross's stages of dying is

A) depression.
B) grieving.
C) final acceptance.
D) anger.

Answer 1

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross work has influenced the process of dying overview. She has observed some common responses from the terminally ill patients when they heard about the news of impending death. Kubler Ross has hypothesized that most of the dying patients will go through the five stages of dying. These stages include denial, anger, bargaining, depression and final acceptance.
Hence, the options (a), (b) and (d) are incorrect.
Final acceptance is the last stage in the Kubler-Ross's stages of dying in which the inner peace will accept the thing which is going to happen certainly. This peace is not having any feeling and the patient still fears death but accept the death with peace and dignity.
Hence, the option is correct.

Question 2

Which of the following is an emotional state of longing and deprivation that is characterized by a deep sense of loss

A) mourning
B) depression
C) bereavement
D) denial

Answer 2

Mourning is a term which is used synonymously to grief in the case of person's death. It also describes the ways which are culturally prescribed for displaying grief. The periods of mourning and rituals are prescribed differently in different cultures. In Roman Empire, the wearing of unadorned black clothing for mourning is a tradition. Widows will wear black throughout their lives after the death of their husband in the rural parts of Mexico, Italy and Greece.
Hence, the option (a) is incorrect.
Depression is the fourth stage of dying as per the Kubler Ross's stages of dying. The feeling of grief, loss and hopelessness comes along with the depression due to the grief of losing loved ones and life itself.
Hence, the option (b) is incorrect.
Denial is the first stage of dying as per the Kubler Ross's stages of dying. In this stage, the people think mostly that may be diagnosis went wrong and it can't be with me. Denial may be flat and perfect or fluctuate in which at one time patient accept the doctor's medical statement and at other time may think about the future plans.
Hence, the option (d) is incorrect.
Bereavement occurs due to the experience of trauma by the death of close friend or family member. It is a state of emotion of longing and deprivation which is characterized by the grief feeling and the sense of loss deeply.
Hence, the option is correct.

Question 3

Medical opinion asserted that Terri Schiavo's state was persistently ___________ as she lay sustained by a feeding tube.

Answer 3

Mr. T, a 26 year old lady was collapsed due to cardiac arrest. She stopped her breathing and due to lack of oxygen she also suffered from brain damage. Her electroencephalogram (EEG) has also shown that, the seat of consciousness, her cerebral cortex was inactive. Later she began to breathe after collapse but she was on a feeding tube for sustenance.
The majority are of the opinion related to the medical issue is that Terri's state was persistently vegetative. There is no chance for her to regain consciousness and she had brain death but not whole-brain death.
Hence, the blank can be filled with .

Question 4

Kübler-Ross carried out her research with

A) people younger than age 40.
B) terminally ill patients.
C) people who had recovered from serious illnesses.
D) nonhuman mammalian species.

Question 5

Terminal _______ Is the practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill patient in the last hours or days of his or her life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous infusion of a sedative drug.

Question 6

Actions that hasten death by means of withholding potentially life-saving treatments are known as

A) physician-assisted suicide.
B) passive euthanasia.
C) involuntary active euthanasia.
D) voluntary active euthanasia.

Question 7

Jack Kevorkian was found guilty of second-degree homicide for his practicing of physician-assisted ___________.

Question 8

The location of death for the greatest number of hospice patients is a

A) hospital.
B) hospice inpatient facility.
C) nursing home.
D) private residence.

Question 9

Maciejewski and his colleagues studied stages of grieving and found that ___________ is highest just after the loss and gradually lessens over the course of 2 years.

Question 10

In the years 2008 through 2010, an estimated ____________ people received hospice care each year.

A) 50,000
B) 250,000
C) 750,000
D) 1,500,000

Question 11

The __________ will is a legal document that people typically draft before a terminal illness that directs health care workers not to use aggressive medical procedures or life-support equipment to prolong vegetative functioning in the event they became permanently incapacitated, and unable to communicate their wishes.

Question 12

When supporting a dying person, all of the following are helpful suggestions except

A) putting yourself at the same eye level.
B) encouraging the person to go through the stages of dying in order.
C) giving the person the opportunity to talk about death and to grieve.
D) discussing the ongoing lives of mutual acquaintances.

Question 13

Hospices provide________ care.

Question 14

Children are more likely than adults to believe that death is

A) reversible.
B) painful.
C) the doorway to an afterlife.
D) punishment for wrongdoing.

Question 15

Medical and legal professionals generally use __________ death as the standard for determining that a person has died.

Question 16

The term ___________ is synonymous with grief over the death of a person, but also describes cul turally prescribed ways of displaying grief.

Question 17

The concept of whole brain death refers to death of the brain and the

A) corpus callosum.
B) executive center of the brain.
C) myelin sheath.
D) brain stem.

Question 18

Experience with a death challenges the adolescent sense of immortality that is connected with

A) intellectual deficiency.
B) the personal fable.
C) formal operations.
D) dualistic thinking.

Question 19

Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross claimed that there are _________ stages of dying.

Question 20

__________ was the first researcher to propose a stage theory of grief.