act of painlessly ending the lives of individuals suffering from incurable diseases or severe disabilities
Euthanasia
Treatment is withheld (ex. stopping the life support, not giving further treatment)
Passive euthanasia
death deliberately induced (ex. causes a persons death such as lethal injection)
Active euthanasia
patient self-administers lethal medication and determines when and where to do this
Assisted suicide
program committed to making end of life as free from pain, anxiety, and depression as possible
Hospice
- symptom relief and comfort for those who live with chronic illnesses, improving quality to life till the end
- reducing pain and suffering, helping individuals die with dignity
Palliative care
- Dead can be brought back to life through medicine or magic
- can understand the irreversibility of death and the cessation of functions
Childhood (4 -5 years of age)
Best strategy in discussing death with children
Honesty
- Death regarded as remote and may be avoided
- Deaths of friends, siblings, parents, or grandparents bring death to the forefront of adolescents’ lives
- Develop more abstract conceptions about death than children
Adolescents
- fear death more
- forced to examine the meanings of life and death more frequently
Adulthood
Kubler-Ross’ Stages of dying
Denial and isolation
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness accompanying the loss of someone loved
Grief
