FRHD 2060 Lecture 14: Chapter-13

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Scott Maitland

Document Summary

In western culture, several meanings have developed: an image, a statistic, an event, a state of being, an analogy, a mystery, a boundary, a thief of meaning, a basis for fear and anxiety, a reward or punishment. Mourning rituals and states of bereavement also vary in different cultures. There is great variability across cultures in the meaning of death and whether there are rituals of other behaviors to express grief. Some cultures have formalized periods of time during which certain prayers or rituals are performed. Death can be a truly cross-cultural experience, such as when major tragedies occur. Variations in the customs surrounding death are reflected in some of the most iconic structures on earth, such as the pyramids in egypt. Clinical death: lack of heart beat and respiration. Persistent vegetative state occurs when cortical functioning ceases; the person does not recover.