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Key Names, Terms and Concepts from The Last Dance

	print out the first page only to get the key terms for chapters 13 and 14.
Chapter 14: Life After Death after-death states afterlife Thomas Aquinas bardo belief Bible on the afterlife Christianity communitarianism Dante Eastern worldviews eternal damnation ancient Greeks ancient Hebrews individualism Islam hell Hellenistic concepts Hinduism human personhood humanitiarianism immortality of the soul karma Eric Kast LSD life after death Munkar Nakir near-death experiences New Testament nirvana Old Testament parapsychology Oskar Pfister positivism psychedelic experiences psychological defense mechanisms reincarnation resurrection secularism soul symbolic immortality Tibetan Buddhism transcendence transmigration of the soul Western worldviews	Chapter 13: Risks of Death accident prone accidents AIDS causes AIDS statistics Ruth Aisenberg capital punishment casualties Karl von Clausewitz criminal negligence deterrence disasters disaster warnings Ebola virus emerging diseases environmental disaster genocide guns HIV high-risk sport Holocaust homicide hostile imagination industrial accidents Robert Kastenbaum  malaria manslaughter, voluntary and involuntary murder murder statistics natural disasters noncriminal homicide nuclear weapons arsenal occupational hazards PTSD psychic maneuvers psychic numbing risk taking stress terrorism tuberculosis violence war
Chapter 12: Suicide acute suicidal risk altruistic suicide ambivalence anomic suicide assisted suicide attempted suicide chronic suicide cluster suicides coroners crisis suicide depression egoistic suicide fatalistic suicide Jim Jones gender differences mass suicide order of lethality postvention psychological autopsy psychotic suicide risk factors in suicide romantic suicide Edwin Shneidman sociological model subintentional death suggestibility suicide intervention suicide notes suicide pacts suicide rates suttee unintentional death victim-precipitated homicide	Chapter 11: Death in the Lives of Adults abortion childbearing losses death of a parent Erik Erikson infertility intimacy vs. isolation miscarriage neonatal death parental bereavement peer support groups perinatal death SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) social support network spousal bereavement sterility stillbirth symbolic loss widowhood	Chapter 10: Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents art therapy children’s conception of death cognitive transformation distancing strategies explaining death to children magical thinking mature concept of death Jean Piaget preoperational psychosocial development reversibility selective memory separation anxiety sibling death Sons and Daughters in Touch Mark Speece spontaneous drawing support groups
Chapter 9: The Law and Death aid-in-dying legislation advance directive amendment autopsy benefactor beneficiary codicil conditional will coroner death certificate distribution of property donor cards durable power of attorney for health care estate trustee executor/administrator forensic pathology forensic science formally executed will holographic will intestate life insurance living will medical examiner modes of death mutual will National Organ Transplant Act natural death directive next of kin notification of death nuncupative will official registration of death Oregon Death with Dignity Act organ donation organ procurement centers persistent vegetative state (PVS) Patient Self-Determination Act physician-assisted suicide postmortem probate proxy “Required Request” laws testator Uniform Anatomical Gift Act Uniform Determination of Death Act viatical settlement	Chapter 8: Last Rites ashes Ba body disposition burial burial vaults casket contingency fees coroner cosmetic restoration cremation cryonics crypt death customs donation to science embalming Egyptians final disposition FTC Funeral Rule funeral cost funeral director funeral parlor funeral society gasketed steel grave goods grave liners grave marker itemizing funeral costs Ka last rites mausoleum medical examiner Jessica Mitford mortician mortuary goods pallbearers Parsi rites of passage single unit pricing David Sudnow Trade Regulations Rule on Funeral Industry Practices undertaker vigil wake	Chapter 7: Survivors acute grief anniversary reaction anticipatory grief attachment theory bereavement broken heart central vs. peripheral relationship complicated grief deathbed promises disenfranchised grief dual-process model grief “grief-work” high grief vs. low grief inner representations Lindemann linking objects “little deaths” loss mortality and morbidity of grief mourning multiple losses narrative model of grief pathological grief perceived similarity phases of grief secondary morbidity somatic symptomology survivor guilt survivor support groups symptoms of grief tasks of mourning traumatic grief trigger events unfinished business
Chapter 6: Medical Ethics artificial nutrition and hydration autonomy beneficence brain death clinical death CMO (comfort measures only) comatose CPR (cardiopulminary resuscitation) definition of death DNR (do not resuscitate) ethics etiology euthanasia extraordinary measures Harvard criteria higher-brain theory Hippocratic oath informed consent justice life-sustaining treatment neonatal intensive care PVS (persistent vegetative state) placebo right to die rigor mortis soul vital signs	Chapter 5: Facing Death adjunctive treatment active dying awareness contexts biopsy cancer chemotherapy complementary therapy coping mechanism diagnosis dying trajectory ethnomedicine infection interferons life-threatening illness malignancy metastasis oncologist organ transplantation pain management prognosis radiation therapy relapse remission social death social role of dying person surgery symbolic healing tumor unorthodox treatment visualization xenotransplantation	Chapter 4: Health Care Systems acute care bureaucratization of death burnout caregiver stress chronic illness classic and ideal caring situations covenantal relationship diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) emergency/trauma care health care rationing home care hospice care hospital life review medical eschatology medical paternalism nursing home palliative care primary caregiver quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) skilled nursing facility support groups total care triage
Chapter 3: Learning About Death accomodation assimilation ch'ing ming cultural diversity culture death system ethnocentrism feng-shui "fuzzy" concepts of death noncorporeal continuity norms parental messages pidgin pluralism religiosity replaceability resocialization social construction of reality social learning social structure socialization society structural-functionalism subcultures symbolic interactionism Taoist traditions teachable moments values	Chapter 2: Perspectives on Death: Cross-Cultural and Historical All Souls' Day ancestor worship Black Death butsudan charnel houses cult of martyrs danse macabre death knell death songs deathbed scenes el Dia de los Muertos effigy haka invisible death mourning restraints name avoidance necromancy o-bon origin-of-death myths power of the dead rites of passage ritual shaman tames death	Chapter 1: Attitudes Toward Death causes of death cultural lag death awareness movement death denial death education death notices "death talk" demographics Dies Irae dirge elegy epidemiologic transition euphamisms gallows humor geographical mobility hibakusha Holocaust literature iconography of death institutioal denial life expectancy life-extending technologies "mean world" syndrome mortality rates mourning memorials obituaries revicitimization thanatology vigilante literature

 

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