PUBH 4327 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ars Moriendi, Vivendi, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUBH 4327
• Professor: Young

Document Summary

Unit 1 chapter 2 : living every day. Quality of life: quality : good, competent, adequate, having worth, life : existence. Latin terms for living and dying an individual: ars vivendi : the art of living, ars moriendi : the art of dying, combined, these two mean the art of dying teaches us the art of living. Instruct on how dying affects how we live. Influences on our attitudes about death: past versus present : how has our culture"s attitudes toward death changed over the years (1) life expectancy. Media: media informs us of the statistics and vital information as soon as it is available, we are continually teased by the media, and our attitudes are formed from it. Language: we may use euphemisms to soften the feeling, language can encourage us to talk about death by either getting or giving information.