FRHD 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Terror Management Theory, Euthanasia, Clinical Death
5 Apr 2018
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Themes connected to dying: statistics, events, mystery, reward/punishment. Legal/medical definitions: clinical death: lack of heart beat and respiration, whole-brain death. Bioethics: euthanasia: the practice of ending life for reasons of mercy. Passive euthanasia: treatment withholding: physician assisted suicide. Prescriptions for self-administered lethal doses of medication. Gradual increase of prescriptions given and deaths over time. Not a sudden rush of people going to die. Long waiting periods to ensure no regret/lawsuits. Protection of forcing people with disabilities to die. Approach to dying: young adults feel cheated by death, middle aged adults confront their mortality. Perspective change of time left until death : older adults more accepting of death, kubler-ross stags of death. Not all people go through all stages, and does not have to be in order. Only applicable with expected death: corr"s 4 dimensions of tasks. Terror management theory: why people engage in certain behaviours to address their concerns about death.
