Summary: Ch 20

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  • Components comprising the death system include

    people
    place/ contexts
    times
    objects
    symbols
  • Death system to the ancient greeks

    to live a full life and die with glory
  • Life expectancy in the 1900s

    47 years old
  • When all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specific period of time

    Brain death
  • A flat EEG reading for a period of time means

    brain death
  • includes both higher cortical functions and the lower brain-stem functions

    brain death
  • A legal document that reflects the patients advance care planning

    living will
  • States whether life-sustaining procedures should or should not be used to prolong the life of an individual when death is imminent

    Advance directive
  • The act of painlessly ending the lives of persons who are suffering from incurable diseases; mercy killing

    Euthanasia
  • The withholding of available treatments in order to allow someone to die

    Passive euthanasia
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