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THANATOLOGY 1025A QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

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The Healthy Immigrant Effect


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- Recent immigrants tend to have better health than people who are
Canadian-born (unhealthy immigrants are less likely to be accepted to
Canada)




Place of Death


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- 80% died at home in 1900
- 64% died in a hospital, long term care facility, hospice in 2014

,Three Elements of Death-Related Experiences


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1. Death-related ecounters
2. Death- related practices
3. Death-related attitudes




Terrorism through self destruction


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- Terrorist tactic
- Suicide bombers, 9/11




Attitudes about death and Colonials


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- Reduction od suffering during death was not a priority
- The dying were often turned away by doctors so as not to tarnish their
reputations




Lifestyle


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, - Has a direct bearing on when and how we die
- Almost half the deaths in the US are preventable (lifestyle choices)




Terror Management Theory


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- Both humans and animals have an instinctive drive for self-preservation
- humans have an awareness of the inevitability of death and that it can
occur at any time
- fear of death and annihilation leads to a condition of anxiety and terror
that underlies much individual and social behaviour
- creation of different world views, such as the belief in life after death, in
order to manage anxiety.




Determinism


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- Freedom of choice limited. Restriction imposed on an individual by one's
caste and family orientations
- Reactive: Whatever happens is destined to happen.
- Although effort is important, success or failure is related to one's karma.
- No guilt is attached to failure
- No blame is attached to victim.
- Very strong beliefs in the cycle of birth, rebirth and after-life.




Death Awareness Movements


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




Components of a Societal Death System


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- People (work in death industry)
- Places (have death related character)
- Times (occasions associated with death)
- Objects (linked to death)
- Symbols/images (signify death)




attitudes about what will happen to me after my death


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- Anxiety of the unknown
- Fear of judgement or punishment
- anticipation towards a heavenly reward




Death Denying Society


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- 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)

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