Health Sciences 2711A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Jack Kevorkian, Infection, Palliative Care
26 Mar 2017
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Death and dying: how to cope with the challenges in your life and become more resilient, don"t let despair overwhelm you and don"t give in to the temptation to give up and stop moving forward. Tell yourself you can do it: view the loss as a test of faith, a sign that you can handle adversity. Duration and shape are two major features of the dying trajectory. A steady trajectory applies to people whose disease causes them to undergo a steady and predictable decline: anorexia cache is syndrome is when individuals lose appetite and muscle mass. The nal period of life can involve emotional and spiritual growth: death by numbers. The curse mortality rate is simply the number of deaths divided by the population alive during s certain time period: an age speci c mortality rate is the number of deaths per 100,000 for a speci c age group.
