Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss came up with four different awareness contexts. One awareness context is called closed awareness. Closed awareness is when the people around the patient know that he or she is dying but the patient is unable to recognize the signs that they are dying. In this awareness the person has to make sure that the patient does not know about their condition. This awareness is usually pretty tough for the staff because they have to pretty much keep a secret from their patient. The patient will usually get pretty suspicious about what is going on. That is when suspicion awareness comes in. The patient then starts to ask all kinds of questions and pretty much assumes that he or she is dying but no one will really give a
