Death & Dying (1)

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death anxiety

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apprehension and discomfort that lack an identifiable source

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death competancy

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capability and skill in dealing with death

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trends that promote impersonalization of the dying process

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-extended medical procedures
-hospital/insurance bureaucracies
-secularism

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learned behaviors about death in childhood

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-discussed openly
-discussed with sense of discomfort
-children excluded from discussion
-no discussion

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social class differences in death

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upper and middle classes- death is related with the elderly
lower class- often occurs prematurely due to accident/violence

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death across the lifespan

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late adolescence/early adulthood- sense of immortality
middle years- realize time is running out
old age- time has run out/no future

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prior to 19th century: living death (1600-1830)

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-impossible to evade fact of death
-death took place in home
-body preparation/viewing in home
-children integral part of process
-gravestone symbols
-death as punishment

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mid-19th century-late 20th century: the dying of death (1830-1945)

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-first professional undertakers
-new cemeteries
-obituaries/death notices
-death- occurance of old age

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20th century: the medicalization of death and dying (1945-now)

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-dying is a medical event
-death takes place in an institution
-death is a legal matter
-research on death, dying, and bereavement

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tame death model

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death process as a normal part of life
-simple public/ritualistic ceremony

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death of self model

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when true essence of self was assumed to be revealed
-judged by christ after death
-manual "art of dying"

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remote/imminent death model (1700s)

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death viewed as a break of life
-not part of continuum

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death of other model (1800s)

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shifted to worry about significant others' deaths

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invisible death model (1900s)

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privatizing of death

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death accepting culture

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eastern cultures

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death denying culture

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western cultures