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Exploring Attitudes Towards Death and Bereavement: Navigating End-of-Life Choices

Dive into the complexities of death and bereavement, examining attitudes, theories of grief, and end-of-life options. Question societal views on death denial and explore various theories related to dying and grief. Learn about terror management and language matters in grief support. Delve into end-of-life choices, including hospice care, suicide options, and advance directives. Reflect on motivations for hastened death and consider personal preparations and wishes regarding death rituals and body disposition.

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Exploring Attitudes Towards Death and Bereavement: Navigating End-of-Life Choices

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  1. Death and Bereavement • Goals • To explore attitudes around death and bereavement • To understand theories around grief, fear of death • To explore end of life options

  2. Are We a Death-Denying Society? • What does death mean to you? • What’s our trouble with the concept of death? • History of death

  3. What is Terror Management Theory? • We have a strong sense of self-preservation, but we know we’re not going to last forever • Promixal defenses • Supression of death thoughts • Denial of personal vulnerability • Distal defenses • Anxiety buffer through worldview

  4. What Are Other Theories Related to Dying and Grief? • Kubler Ross • Denial • Anger • Bargaining • Depression • Acceptance • Disenfranchised grief • Denial of the “rights” to grieve

  5. Language Matters

  6. Concentric Grief Support Model

  7. What Are Our End-Of-Life Choices? • Do our institutions, illnesses offer choices at end of life? • Hospice and palliative care • Suicide (right to die; euthanasia; assisted suicide; mercy killing; hastened death; aid in dying) • Active • Passive • Living wills, advanced directives “We spend more time planning for a 2-week vacation than we will for our last 2 weeks of life.”

  8. Motivations for Seeking a Hastened Death

  9. Questions for YOU • Do you have a will? • Do you have life insurance? • Have you prepared advanced directives? • Are you willing to have an autopsy done on your body? • Are you willing to donate your organs for use after you die? • Do you know how you want your body disposed of (burial, cremation, donation to medical school?) • What kind of last rites do you desire (funeral, memorial services, a party?)

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