PSYC 2070 : PSYC FINAL Review 2013
Document Summary
More difficult to classify if someone is dead today: medical technology, can keep people alive on life support, by doing cpr, etc. Euthanasia - the act of painlessly ending the lives of individuals who are suffering from an incurable disease or severe disability: passive- treatment is withheld, active- death deliberately induced adding something to cause death. Hospice (lots of questions from here): care of life instead of quantity of life, informed decisions for alternatives (social workers), and control to the patient. Cure: care is the hospice approach to illness. Spend time making your time left comfortable: cure is the doctor approach to illness. They will do everything to keep you alive for as long as they possibly can. Life expectancy vs. life span: life expectancy, how long you can expect to live based on the year you were born 78 years varies, life span, longest time a species can live 120-125 years, stays the same.
