• Death Education Unit

     

    OBJECTIVES:  The student will be able to:

     

    1.     Define death and other terms related to the dying experience.

     

    2.     Describe the Harvard Medical School’s definition of Brain Death.

     

    3.     Answer questions about Death and Dying by following the outline of questions.

     

    4.     List and describe the stages of death and dying by Kubler-Ross.

     

    5.     Define hospice care.

     

    6.     Define grief and explain the stages of the grief process.

     

    7.     Define mourning and list mourning practices.

     

    8.     Define Bereavement and list examples of a bereaved person.

     

    9.     Define Euthanasia and the two types.

     

    10.     Debate arguments in favor or against Euthanasia by following the criteria.

     

    11.     Describe legal issues to be dealt with after death such as wills, insurance policies and other business affairs.

     

    12.     Describe legal issues to be dealt with after death such as wills, insurance policies and other business affairs.

     

    STUDENT OUTLINE FOR DEATH EDUCATION

     

     

    VOCABULARY LIST

     

    1.     Cell death

     

    2.     Local death

     

    3.     Somatic death

     

    4.     Apparent death

     

    5.     Functional death

     

    6.     Brain death

     

    7.     Accidental death

     

    8.     Natural death

     

    9.     Violent death

     

    10.   Legal death

     

    11.     Thanatology

     

    12.     Theological death

     

    13.      Cardiac death

     

    14.      Clinical death

     

    15.   Rigor mortis

     

    16.   Cessation

     

    17.    Hospice

     

    18.   Artificial respiration

     

    19.    Living Will

     

    20.   Hippocratic oath

     

     

    HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL CRITERIA FOR BRAIN DEATH

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    UNIFORM DEFINITION OF DEATH ACT

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ELISABETH KUBLER ROSS STAGES OF DYING

     

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    GRIEF

     

     

     

    GRIEF PROCESS-BEHAVIORS AND FEELINGS

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    MOURNING

     

     

     

    EXAMPLE OF MOURNING RITES

     

     

     

     

    BEREAVEMENT

     

     

     

     

    EUTHANASIA

     

    TYPES OF EUTHANASIA

     

    1.     Active

     

     

     

    2.     Passive

     

     

     

    THREE GENERAL WAYS EUTHANASIA CAN BE PERFORMED

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF EUTHANASIA

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ARGUMENTS AGAINST EUTHANASIA

     

     

     

     

     

    DEATH AND THE LAW

     

    1.     benefactor

     

    2.     executor

     

    3.     autopsy

     

    4.     death certificate

     

    5.     donor card

     

    6.     endowment

     

    7.     trust department

     

    8.     will

     

    9.     estate

     

    10.   organ donation

     

     

    CONSUMER ASPECTS OF DEATH AND DYING

     

    EMBALMING

     

     

    STEPS TO EMBALMING

     

     

     

     

    CREMATION

     

     

    DONATION OF BODY AND BODY PARTS

     

     

    1.     Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

     

     

     

     

     

    2.     Donation of body for medical research or science

     

    FUNERAL HOME INDUSTRIES

     

    TERMS

     

    1.     casket spray

     

    2.     burial plot

     

    3.     mausoleum

     

    4.     pathologist

     

    5.     urn

     

    6.     vault

     

    7.     casket

     

    8.     wake

     

    9.     eulogy

     

    10.   crematory

     

    11.   monument

     

    12.    coroner

     

    13.  columbarium

     

    14.    honorarium

     

    15.    epitaph

     

    16.      obituary

     

    17.    gravestone

     

    18.     morgue

     

    QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

     

    1.     How would you define death?

     

    2.     Why do most people dislike talking and thinking about death?

     

    3.     What positive or negative statements could you make about your life thus far?

     

    4.     What are some ways people deny that death is part of everyone’s life?

     

    5.     What do you fear most about dying?

     

    6.     According to Kubler-Ross, what happens during each stage of dying?

     

    7.     What is the purpose of Hospice care?

     

    8.     What are some modern inventions that delay death?

     

    9.     What is the difference between active and passive euthanasia?

     

    10.     Explain what is meant by the term “death with dignity”?

     

    11.   What reasons support the idea that euthanasia is morally wrong? Morally right?

     

    ASSIGNMENT

     

    OBITUARY-cut out an obituary from the newspaper and break down the parts.  On a separate sheet of paper write your own obituary: it may be fictitious or another’s individual obituary.  If you do not feel comfortable writing your own then write the obituary for your pet.

     

    PLANNING YOUR FUNERAL

     

    DIRECTIONS:  By using the internet research information related to the funeral home industry. After the research is complete, plan out your funeral and include the following:  disposition of the body, cost, traditional or non-traditional funeral and who will be in charge of the services.  Please be complete with all the information.

     

     

     

     

     
Last Modified on November 6, 2006