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    easily. So I better make sure I carry my box of Kleenex with me. Death is not something we like to think about‚ much less face it. We are fascinated when we see it on the television‚ hear it on the news‚ or read about in the newspaper. But when it comes to our own death or that of people close to us‚ we have problems coping with that. When death is personal‚ we become very uneasy. I think there are different ways of viewing death‚ weather it be an event‚ a mystery‚ a reward or even a punishment

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    In this essay I have been asked to discuss three ethical choices that might arise when providing end of life care to children. End-of-life care is also known as palliative care and it is the care that is given to someone who is terminally ill and dying. Palliative care‚ as defined by the Department of Health (200b)‚ is the holistic‚ individualised care of someone who has been diagnosed with an incurable or life-limiting illness. (The Open University 2009). Here in the UK the NHS is responsible

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    inaccessible so that its value is diminished or removed”. Loss is the experience and feeling you get when dying. It has been felt by the individual dying as well as their family members and their significant others when their loved one is being taken away from them. • Grief is the emotional/behavioral reaction to loss. It occurs with loss caused by separation as well as loss caused by death. It is a very normal process‚ but it normally takes several months to work through. Grief could come in the

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    On Death and Dying By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross For my book review‚ I read On Death and Dying‚ by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Dr. Kubler-Ross was the first person in her field to discuss the topic of death. Before 1969‚ death was considered a taboo. On Death and Dying is one of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century. The work grew out of her famous interdisciplinary seminar on death‚ life‚ and transition. In this paper‚ I give a comprehensive book review as well as integrate

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    DeathDying and the Afterlife Every person has their own opinion about deathdying and the afterlife. Some religious beliefs see death differently than others. For example‚ Native Americans build a platform for their deceased and burn it to free the souls of their loved ones. Jewish Americans must bury their loved ones within 24 hours of death. Most Americans either cremate their loved ones or lay them to rest in the cemetery of their choice. My personal perspective about deathdying‚ and

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    Kubler- Ross was profoundly affected by a visit to the Maidanek concentration camp in Portland and her images of hundreds of butterflies carved into some of the walls there. To Kubler- Ross the butterflies were the final works of art by those facing death. They would tell her stay with her for years and influenced her thinking about the end of life. Later Kubler- Ross began to pursuing her dreams to become a doctor in 1951 as a medical student at the University of Zurich. So now that she made it to

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    everyone’s dying process is unique. Many people think of dying as merely a physical process‚ but dying is an experience of the whole person and is influenced by a combination of physical‚ psychological‚ social‚ cultural‚ and spiritual factors. There are as many ways to die as there are to live‚ so in order to better understand how people who are dying experience the process‚ researchers and clinicians have developed different models or theories that attempt to account for how people cope with dying. THEORIES/MODELS

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    The Stages of Dying and of Losing a Loved One Usually‚ a person (or their loved ones) will go through all or some of the following stages of feelings and emotions. The dying person’s stages can often be more predictable than the stages experienced by a loved one who has just suffered a loss. 1. Denial • The dying person being able to drop denial gradually‚ and being able to use less radical defences‚ depends on: - how he/she is told about his/her status; - how much time he/she has to acknowledge

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    Death is inevitable in life. A lot of people may deny it but almost everyone is afraid of dying. Death is one of the greatest mysteries in life. Science‚ philosophy and religion have all battled over a theory of what happens after you die. Euphemistic language also gives us distance from our discomfort with death. People who die are "no longer with us"‚ have "passed"‚ gone "to meet their Maker"‚ and etc. Some of the discomfort with the death and dying process has come because death has been removed

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    The heart and lungs functionality can be restored even if there is a complete and irreversible loss of all brain function with the use of artificial machinery. This has led to the proposal of a new set of clinical signs; the definition of ‘brain death’ is:‘the functionality of respiration and circulation is lost along with consciousness‚ thought and feelings.’ A lot of questions emerge‚ because with this reasoning if a person has spontaneous functioning of heart and lungs but no other vital signs

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