Health Sciences 2711A/B Study Guide - Permadeath, Clinical Death, Brainstem
16 Apr 2014
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Phases of death: agonal phase, clinical death, mortality. People die a prolonged death: brain death. Suffering in first moments body can no longer support life. Heart, breathing, brain stopped but can still be resuscitated. All activity in brain and brain stem stopped. Communication with and care of dying person: Children learn about death in this order, usually through the death of a pet. By middle childhood, they usually have an adult-like understanding of death: Inevitability: cessation, applicability, causation, children who understand death find it easier to accept it. Factors that affect understanding: experience with death, candid, sensitive discussion with older adults. Adolescents logically understand death but have trouble applying it to their lives and still engage in high-risk activities. Everything in their life at that point is about expansion and not cessation. They think they are unique and exempt from death.
