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advance directives - Answer Legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions
about end-of-life care ahead of time.
DNR - Answer A do-not-resuscitate order, is a medical order written by a doctor. It instructs
health care providers not to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if a patient's breathing
stops or if the patient's heart stops beating.
Euthanasia - Answer the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful
disease or in an irreversible coma. The practice is illegal in most countries.
Grief - Answer is the response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or some living
thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed.
healthcare proxy - Answer or durable power of attorney for health care, allows you to
designate another person as your agent to make health care decisions on your behalf.
used in combination with living wills, are referred to as "Advanced Directives."
Hospice - Answer is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill
patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of
life.
prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering.
Intestacy - Answer is the state of dying without a will. If a person dies without a will he is
said to have "died intestate." The estate of a person who has died intestate goes through
probate court.
The state's laws will determine who will inherit the decedent's assets.
living will - Answer a written, legal document that spells out medical treatments you would
and would not want to be used to keep you alive, as well as your preferences for other medical
decisions, such as pain management or organ donation. In determining your wishes, think about
your values.
, Culture - Answer is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms
found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities,
and habits of the individuals in these groups.
Ethnic - Answer or ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the
basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
Heritage - Answer is a person's unique, inherited sense of family identity: the values,
traditions, culture, and artifacts handed down by previous generations.
Patriarchal - Answer is a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in
roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and control of property. Some
societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage.
Religion - Answer the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a
personal God or gods.
Shaman - Answer a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good
and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically,
such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practice divination and healing.
Talisman - Answer an object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have
magic powers and to bring good luck.
Wuzho/marime - Answer inseparably linked to personal hygiene and the differing nature of
the sexes. A woman is clean from the waist up and marime from the waist down, because of
associations with menstruation and pregnancy.
Yin Yang - Answer is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes how obviously opposite
or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the
natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) - Answer Provides criteria for states to adopt
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