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Death and Dying

Death and Dying. By: Keith and James. Why Is There Death?. All living things eventually die. Living cells break down over time and die off. Understanding Death. Afterlife (Religion) Reality of Death Appreciation of Relationships Growth. Defining Death. Brain Death

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Death and Dying

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  1. Death and Dying By: Keith and James

  2. Why Is There Death? • All living things eventually die. • Living cells break down over time and die off.

  3. Understanding Death • Afterlife (Religion) • Reality of Death • Appreciation of Relationships • Growth

  4. Defining Death • Brain Death • EEG (Electroencephalogram) • Clinical Death • Cellular Death

  5. Brain Death • Four Characteristics: • 1. Lack of responses to outside stimuli • 2. Absence of spontaneous muscle movement/breathing. • 3. Absence of observable reflexes • 4. Lack of brain activity.

  6. Electroencephalogram (EEG) • Second set of tests after 24 hours • Hypothermia body temp. below 90 Degrees. • Central nervous system depressants • (Barbiturates)

  7. Clinical Death • Cessation of heartbeat and breathing. • Criteria for establishing brain death.

  8. Cellular Death • Heartbeat, respiration, and brain activity stop. • Stop over a gradual period of time. • Due to the breakdown of metabolic processes. • Complete non-functionality at the cellular level. (as a result)

  9. Coping With Death • Each person copes in their own ways. • Determined by his/her personality and life history. • Also by family relationships, and interaction in person’s social environment.

  10. Coping Tasks • Elisabeth Kubler-Ross suggested that responses to death involve five psychological stages. • Author of the 1969 book titled: “On Death and Dying”.

  11. Five Stages • Denial • Anger • Bargaining • Depression • Acceptance • According to Kubler-Ross people alternate through different stages during the course of an illness. • Different stages can occur simultaneously.

  12. Four Dimensions in Coping • Charles Corr • Physical • Psychological • Social • Spiritual

  13. Physical • Satisfying bodily needs and minimizing physical stress.

  14. Psychological • Maximizing a sense of security, self worth, autonomy, and richness in living.

  15. Social • Sustaining significant relationships and addressing the social implications of dying.

  16. Spiritual • Identifying, developing, or reaffirming sources of meaning and fostering hope.

  17. Mourning Tasks • Psychologist William Worden identified four tasks. • 1.Accepting Reality of the loss. • 2.Working through the pain and grief. • 3.Adjusting to a changed environment without the deceased. • 4.Emotionally relocating the deceased and moving on with life.

  18. Coming to Terms • Learning to understand death • Allowing ourselves to “make room” for death in our lives. • Learn to be confronted with emotions and thoughts to the loss of someone and to our very own mortality.

  19. ADEC • Association for Death Education and Counseling. • 2,000 members of mental and medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and volunteers. • Offers education opportunities through conferences, courses and workshops, ect. • www.adec.org

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