DEATH AND DYING THANATOLOGY TEST
PAPER 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS GRADED A+
◉HOSPICE CARE . Answer: personal, patient- and family-centered
care for a person with terminal illness.
◉PALLIATIVE CARE . Answer: care aimed at relieving pain and
suffering and allowing the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and
dignity.
◉TERMINAL DROP . Answer: a frequently observed decline in
cognitive abilities near the end of life also called terminal decline.
◉GRIEF . Answer: emotional response experienced in the early phases
of bereavement.
◉BEREAVEMENT . Answer: loss, due to death, of someone to whom
one feels close and the process of adjustment to the loss.
◉GRIEF WORK . Answer: working out of psychological issues
connected with grief.
, ◉PASSIVE EUTHANASIA . Answer: withholding or discontinuation
of life-prolonging treatment of a terminally ill person to end suffering or
allow death with dignity.
◉ACTIVE EUTHANASIA . Answer: deliberate action taken to shorten
the life of a terminally ill person to end suffering or to allow death with
dignity also called mercy killing.
◉ADVANCE DIRECTIVE (LIVING WILL) . Answer: document
specifying the type of care wanted by the maker in the event of an
incapacitating or terminal illness.
◉DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY . Answer: legal instrument
that appoints an individual to make decisions in the event of another
person's incapacitation.
◉ASSISTED SUICIDE . Answer: suicide in which a physician or
someone else helps a person take his or her own life.
◉LIFE REVIEW . Answer: reminiscence about one's life to see its
significance.
◉MORTALITY REVOLUTION . Answer: Advances in medicine and
sanitation, new treatment for many once-fatal illnesses, and a better
PAPER 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS GRADED A+
◉HOSPICE CARE . Answer: personal, patient- and family-centered
care for a person with terminal illness.
◉PALLIATIVE CARE . Answer: care aimed at relieving pain and
suffering and allowing the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and
dignity.
◉TERMINAL DROP . Answer: a frequently observed decline in
cognitive abilities near the end of life also called terminal decline.
◉GRIEF . Answer: emotional response experienced in the early phases
of bereavement.
◉BEREAVEMENT . Answer: loss, due to death, of someone to whom
one feels close and the process of adjustment to the loss.
◉GRIEF WORK . Answer: working out of psychological issues
connected with grief.
, ◉PASSIVE EUTHANASIA . Answer: withholding or discontinuation
of life-prolonging treatment of a terminally ill person to end suffering or
allow death with dignity.
◉ACTIVE EUTHANASIA . Answer: deliberate action taken to shorten
the life of a terminally ill person to end suffering or to allow death with
dignity also called mercy killing.
◉ADVANCE DIRECTIVE (LIVING WILL) . Answer: document
specifying the type of care wanted by the maker in the event of an
incapacitating or terminal illness.
◉DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY . Answer: legal instrument
that appoints an individual to make decisions in the event of another
person's incapacitation.
◉ASSISTED SUICIDE . Answer: suicide in which a physician or
someone else helps a person take his or her own life.
◉LIFE REVIEW . Answer: reminiscence about one's life to see its
significance.
◉MORTALITY REVOLUTION . Answer: Advances in medicine and
sanitation, new treatment for many once-fatal illnesses, and a better
