Introducing Death
Did you know that death was a process? There are three types of death such as clinical, brain, and social death. Clinical death is described as when the heart and breathing stops, but the person can still be resuscitated. An example would be anyone who was close to death or near death and was resuscitated back to life. Brain death is when all the functions in the brain seize to work and have no reflexes or can’t respond. When only the cortex of the brain is affected some people can still be alive on life support for quite a while. When the brain stem is also dead along with the cortex, no body function can be made. Legally, the person is considered dead at this point. Brain death usually happens eight to ten minutes after …show more content…
When someone dies in their culture, the grievers are persuaded to avoid focusing on death and urged to celebrate life. To understand death in their country, you have to understand their country. The majority of Italians who aren’t married live at home with their parents or at least have a strong relationship with their parents. The ones who are married lived as we would say, around the corner from their parents or less than 15 minutes. They even meet with their families four or more times a week. Italian nurses even go by a rule that in the intensive care unit, loyalty was a must in order to even be a part of the group of assistance. The personal beliefs of Italians are centered on Christian forms and Roman catholic forms of religion. In these aspects, tradition emphasizes a relationship between the living and the dead. Doctors and nurses play specific roles in the Italian culture. After the doctor pronounces a person dead the nurse takes over in making sure the body is removed from the ward area. They believe when one passes he endangers the living around him. They have a goal of not prolonging death nor reminding themselves of it. Friends and family barely see the deceased person or touch them after afterwards. The grieving process and pain that usually follows after a death is underplayed. They refocus more on being survivors. Nurses even feel uncomfortable dealing with death. The nurses however have staff-directed programs put together to help the deal with grieve, seeing that they deal with it so often. After the death had occurred the nurses open up windows to allow the spirit to cross over to the other side. If they fail to do so, the spirit could come back and haunt them, finish incomplete projects, or enter new statuses and social identities as a living soul. Italians believe ritual itself is necessary for the ministering to them for their distress. (Goopy, 2006) Even the funerals in Italy are times
Did you know that death was a process? There are three types of death such as clinical, brain, and social death. Clinical death is described as when the heart and breathing stops, but the person can still be resuscitated. An example would be anyone who was close to death or near death and was resuscitated back to life. Brain death is when all the functions in the brain seize to work and have no reflexes or can’t respond. When only the cortex of the brain is affected some people can still be alive on life support for quite a while. When the brain stem is also dead along with the cortex, no body function can be made. Legally, the person is considered dead at this point. Brain death usually happens eight to ten minutes after …show more content…
When someone dies in their culture, the grievers are persuaded to avoid focusing on death and urged to celebrate life. To understand death in their country, you have to understand their country. The majority of Italians who aren’t married live at home with their parents or at least have a strong relationship with their parents. The ones who are married lived as we would say, around the corner from their parents or less than 15 minutes. They even meet with their families four or more times a week. Italian nurses even go by a rule that in the intensive care unit, loyalty was a must in order to even be a part of the group of assistance. The personal beliefs of Italians are centered on Christian forms and Roman catholic forms of religion. In these aspects, tradition emphasizes a relationship between the living and the dead. Doctors and nurses play specific roles in the Italian culture. After the doctor pronounces a person dead the nurse takes over in making sure the body is removed from the ward area. They believe when one passes he endangers the living around him. They have a goal of not prolonging death nor reminding themselves of it. Friends and family barely see the deceased person or touch them after afterwards. The grieving process and pain that usually follows after a death is underplayed. They refocus more on being survivors. Nurses even feel uncomfortable dealing with death. The nurses however have staff-directed programs put together to help the deal with grieve, seeing that they deal with it so often. After the death had occurred the nurses open up windows to allow the spirit to cross over to the other side. If they fail to do so, the spirit could come back and haunt them, finish incomplete projects, or enter new statuses and social identities as a living soul. Italians believe ritual itself is necessary for the ministering to them for their distress. (Goopy, 2006) Even the funerals in Italy are times