SS 476 - Death and Dying

• Identify their attitudes regarding death and dying
• Develop and articulate an awareness regarding anticipatory loss and grief
• Analyze society’s decisions regarding terminal care and health care resource allocation

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• Attitudes toward death
• Pattern of death and dying: then and now displacement of death from the home
• Expressions of attitudes toward death: language, humor, mass media, music, literature, visual arts
• Pioneers in death studies: The rise of death education, the response to AIDS
• Perspectives on death: cross cultural and historical death in early and traditional cultures, death and dying in western culture; four cultural case studies: Native American, African American, Mexican American and Japanese American traditions
• Terminal illness-pain and suffering reactions of the terminally ill, family reactions, grief: the reaction to loss, hospice
• Knowing when to stop: a cross-cultural perspective to the funeral ritual, what is a living will? Power of attorney
• Guest speaker-oncologist’s perspective
• Guest speaker-nurse clinician
• It is important to talk about the end of life
• Guest speaker-the perspective of a medical ethicist
• Guest speaker-the perspective of the clergy
• Guests-families who have lost children
• Guest-the problem of trauma-induced stress
• Guest-the perspective of a funeral director and mortician