MEDRADSC 3DH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thanatology, Canada Labour Code

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 3DH3
• Professor: Lyn Paddon

Document Summary

Goals of education in thanatology: personal enrichment, planning for the future, participating in society, professional and vocational training, communication, understanding of the continuing effects of bereavement. Canadian attitudes about death: sources of attitudes. Literature the arts (media: contemporary attitudes toward death. Western world view death as ugly has made it invisible people dying in institutions rather than in their homes. has sanitized death lack of personal experience. Media dictate much of the canadian view of death impersonal experiences o: loss is not only about death. Loss of identity & a sense of belonging. Our attachments are both tangible and intangible. When we lose something, or someone we"re attached to, we grieve. All losses result in same type of grieving. Bereaved individuals only need to express their feelings in order to resolve grief. To be healthy after the death of a loved one, just put the person out of your mind (called.