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Thanatology 1025A Test Questions and Answers Latest Update already Passed Death Cafe - Answers - A pop-up event where people get together to talk about death and have tea and cake - The objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their finite lives ...

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Death Cafe - Answers - A pop-up event where people get together to talk about death and have tea and
cake

- The objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their
finite lives

Death Cafe History - Answers - First was in Switzerland by Bernard Crettaz in 2004

- Came to England through web designer Jon Underwood in 2011 and he established a website for the
movement

- Brought to US by Lizzy Miles and Maria Johnson in 2012

- There have been 4954 in 51 countries since 2017

Death Denying Society - Answers - America has a hard time dealing with the reality of death and so they
avoid the subject as well as dying individuals

- Want to control death by decreasing accidental deaths (Unnecessary), and out of order deaths (Like a
child)

- Dying is now mostly a product of old-age

- Death brings up fears and unpleasant memories

Death Awareness Movements - Answers - Development of new programs on care of the dying, support
for the bereaving, and research surrounding death-related attitudes

Thanatology - Answers - The study of death and dying

- From Greek word for death (Thanatos) and the word for a science or organized body of knowledge (-
ology)

Death Education - Answers - Formal or planned education about death, dying and bereavement

- Associated with organized instructional programs found in schools, colleges, universities, workshops,
volunteer training programs etc.

- Taught in-class and online

Early Examples of Death Education - Answers - Secondary schools, emphasizing topics like dealing with
loss, suicide prevention, violence and violence prevention, crisis counselling

Teachable Moments - Answers - Unanticipated events in life that offer important occasions for
developing useful educational insights and lessons, as well as for personal growth

,- Informal death education

Four Dimensions of Death Education - Answers Cognitive

Affective

Behavioural

Valuational

Cognitive Dimension of Death Education - Answers - Provides factual info on death related experiences

- Focuses on understanding and interpreting the events

- May discuss the North American death system, cultural patterns, suicide etc.

- Identifies new ways of organizing/interpreting the human experience (Like how AIDS and HIV were
identified)

Affective Dimension of Death Education - Answers - Deals with feelings, emotions, and attitudes

- Sensitizes those who have not bereaved to the complexities to grief and mourning

Behavioural Dimension of Death Education - Answers - Explores why people act certain ways in death
related situations, helpful or unhelpful behaviours, how to act in death related situations

- Avoiding death related situations is common because people don't typically know what to do or say

- Emphasizes value of being a simple presence

Valuational Dimension of Death Education - Answers - Affirms basic human values

- Looks at how death can teach us to live

Six Goals of Education about Death, Dying, and Bereavement - Answers Enrich personal lives

Inform and guide individuals in their personal transactions with society

Help prepare individuals for their public role as citizens

Help prepare and support individuals in their professional and vocational roles

Enhance the ability of individuals to communicate effectively about death-related topics

Enrich Personal Lives - Answers - Helps indvs understand themselves more fully, and to appreciate both
their strengths and limitations as finite human beings

, Inform and Guide Individuals in their Personal Transactions with Society - Answers - Spreads awareness
of services and options they have to choose from in things like end-of-life care, funeral practices, or
memorial rituals

Help Prepare Individuals for their Public Role as Citizens - Answers - Clarifies important social issues like
assisted suicide, euthanasia, organ and tissue donation

Help Prepare and Support Individuals in their Professional and Vocational Roles - Answers - Teaches
about death, caring for the dying, counselling the bereaved, etc.

Enhance the Ability of Individuals to Communicate Effectively about Death-Related Topics - Answers -
Good communication is essential

Lessons Learned about Life and Living - Answers 1. Our control is limited

2. Life and death both include individuals and communities

3. Humans are always found between vulnerability and resilience

4. The importance of quality of living and the human search for meaning

Three Elements of Death-Related Experiences - Answers 1. Death-related ecounters

2. Death- related practices

3. Death-related attitudes

Death Rates - Answers - Determined by choosing a specific group of people and dividing the number of
people in that group who die during a specific time period by the total population of the group

- Age adjusted death rates are more accurate in comparing subgroups in the population

Changes in North American Death Rates - Answers - In 1900, death rates were at a high

- It has slowly decreased

- We are now at a point where our death rate is virtually impossible for us to push any lower

Stats on Death in North America - Answers - Historical info is limited

- Info used to be limited to aline on a chinches burial roisterer a hospitals daily logs

- Present info is still sparse

Decline in Public Dying - Answers - Became more associated with hospitals

- Dying was handed over to professionals to take care of

- Produced less conversation about death

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