PSYC 2219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fatalism, Proxemics, Palliative Care
28 Sep 2016
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Psyc 2219 - lecture 2 - death systems. People (first respondents, hospice workers, medical examiners) Thanatechnological (internet: the study of death using technology. Give warnings and predictions regarding potentially life-threatening events. Manages the phenomenon of death in all its manifestations. Touches on virtually every aspect of one"s social and individual life. Affects our collective and personal relationships to mortality. Decide upon the criteria and procedures that will be used in making a determination of death. Apply the criteria and procedures to a particular case. If the criteria is met, make pronouncement of death. Attest to the person"s death on a certificate of record. Brain death: lack of receptivity and response to external stimuli, absence of observable reflexes, including brain and spinal reflexes, absence of brain activity, signified by a flat electroencephalogram (eeg) Clinical death: determination made according to accepted medical criteria. Cessation of heartbeat/breathing or criteria for establishing brain death. Irreversible loss of capacity for consciousness or social interaction.
