PSYC 3570 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cryoprotectant, Homicide, Cryonics
8 Apr 2013
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From description to decision making the end of life decision depends much on the adequacy of communication among health care professionals, terminally ill patients and their fmailies. You and i - life support systems and the emergence of the hospice care movement. People can do little to alter their fate its in the hands of the gods. The living will and its impact see box 6-1 (p173) Advance directives are instructions for actions to be taken in the future if we are not able to speak for ourselves at the time. It was the first advance directive to receive general attention in the us. Introduced in 1968 by a nonprofit organization that was ahead of its time in educating public and professionals about end of life options. The living will did stimulate awareness of death related issues. Communication increased between somewhat between individuals and their families, physicians, nurses, ministers, lawyers.
