| A | B |
|---|
| 5 stages of grief in order | Denial - won't believe, Anger - relieve pain, Bargaining - attempt to postpone death, Depression - faces losses dying brings, Acceptance - works through conflicts |
| Children's reactions to death | anger at being abandoned, fear of having no one to take care of them,guilt that they may have caused death to happen,confusion about what has happened |
| Strategies to help children cope with death | help them express their feelings, fears, fantasies, be patient with them |
| Reasons to face and accept dying | to live fully to the end, be prepared emotionally and practically |
| way to help a dying or grieving person | help them gain an inner understanding, respecting their rights as a person, giving of yourself to help them |
| Actual times you can help the family of a dying person or after they have died | during the period when they are dying, at the death or funeral, and long afterwards at the "anniversary" or holidays |
| cellular death | rigor mortis |
| spiritual death | death of the being |
| euthanasia | taking the life of another through mercy killing(active) or passive - indirect |
| physical reactions to death | shortness of breath, feeling weak or faint, generalized headache, mild nauseau |
| mental/emotional reactions of grief | jumbles of ideas in mind, self-pity, deep anger |
| euphemisms | statements said to make you feel better such as "it's all for the best", "they are no longer suffering", "gone to a better place" |
| tasks of the mourner | freeing oneself emotionally, readjusting to life without that person, forming new relationships with others |
| bereavement | the event of loss |
| grief | emotional response to the event |
| mourning | the process of restoring inner balance after a loss |
| functional death | absence of heartbeat and spontaneous breathing |
| brain death | absence of electrical impulse activity from the brain |
| duties of the funeral director | transportation, prepare body, embalm, legal forms, obituary notice, order flowers,order caskets, make cemetery or crematory arrangements |
