PSY 207 Lecture 9: Chapter 5.
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Exam question: using a specific example, explain how culture affects death encounters, death attitudes and death related practices. Outline: statistics life expectancy, causes of death in canada, hospital death, legal system, withdrawing, withholding & refusing treatment, care decisions and living wills/health care directives, regrets, conclusions. The pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love: it is perhaps the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment. Life expectancy on average is 80 years in canada. In 30 years the life expectancy in canada has increased by 6 years. Women have a greater life expectancy, and the gap is slowly narrowing but still a gap occurs. If you look at the overall life expectancy on birth it is around 81. 1 for both sexes. If you reach the age of 65, the life expectancy goes up a bit more by 20. 2 years from 65. Shorter life span for indigenous people compared to others.
