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Preparing for Death and Dying: Anxieties, Issues, and Tasks

Preparing for Death and Dying: Anxieties, Issues, and Tasks. Dusana Rybarova Chapter 10 2007 Psyc 456. How to face the anxiety about death?. Avoid-or-confront approach Floating perspective Examining the issues of death continuously throughout our life

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Preparing for Death and Dying: Anxieties, Issues, and Tasks

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  1. Preparing for Death and Dying: Anxieties, Issues, and Tasks Dusana Rybarova Chapter 10 2007 Psyc 456

  2. How to face the anxiety about death? • Avoid-or-confront approach • Floating perspective • Examining the issues of death continuously throughout our life • Viewing death confrontation as a part of the process of searching for life’s meanings • Thoughts of death reduce us to our essence (Jean Paul Sartre) • Meditation on personal death as ‘a precondition for achieving meaning and freedom of fear in everyday life’ (Victor Frankl) • Anxiety of death as a wellspring of creativity and self-actualization

  3. When are we death? • Whole-brain death • Cerebral death • Neocortical death • Dissolution of energies of the body

  4. Preparing for Death • The living will • Easier for your family to make decisions about your death • Written instructions about health care in the event of terminal illness • Durable power of attorney for health care • Appointing another person to make medical and health care decisions in the event that you become unable to participate in decision making about your medical care

  5. Fascinated and fearful, we open our eyes to find ourselves face to face with death, with the fact of our own mortality, with our own impermanence, with the transient existence of those we love, and with the mourning after. And in that moment we experience, not numbing fear or anxiety, but humility, dignity, and a certain groundedness in who we truly are, not who we think we are. (Marone, 1997:393)

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